دور الوقف في النهضة العلمية و الثقافية : قراءة في التجربتين الإسلامية و الغربية

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Science is the pillar of nations’ renaissance; it is the basis of the development and progress of civilizations, and the path to any advancement and prosperity in all fields.

If the endowment potentials are used to serve science and education, we will surely arrive to the development aimed by nations.

For that reason, it is important to strengthen the role of endowment and charity work in a global culture and scientific Renaissance throughout inspiration from human historical experiences, especially the Islamic experience, where the scientific endowment had marked the cultural, spiritual and social life of Islamic societies for many centuries.

It was a source of every intellectual enlightenment or scientific achievement, where the Islamic civilization had emerged and shone more than any other civilization, by benefiting from the western experiences that copied the endowment in its Islamic meaning into formulas and methods resembling its idea.

Later on they developed it into donor institutions, research and scientific enlightenment centres and endowment universities, which are all established from the idea of free handouts even if the opinions and goals differ, until it dominated and over passed the scientific endowment experience in the Islamic though, where it reached a sustainable scientific and cultural development.