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The author of this work on hubus, or hobous, the North African equivalent of the Arabic waqf (endowment), Ernest Mercier (1840‒1907), was for some years the mayor of Constantine, a city in northeast Algeria, then a French colony. Mercier also wrote several other works on North African subjects. The book, which is in French, first defines the Muslim obligation of charitable and pious endowment, its origins, and its legal status. It describes the rules, the essential religious or humanitarian purpose of waqf, designation of beneficiaries, management of the endowment ...