Institution of Waqfs of the two Sacred Boundaries in Algeria and its role in serving Algerian society and its role in serving the Algerian community and the communities of Makkah and Madinah during the 11th century H

Abstract

Waqf institutions occupied a prominent place in Algerian society as well as in other Muslim societies. And these institutions continued to develop and diversify their property and expand, and increased further after the failure of the Spanish crusader project in the Maghreb and the establishment of the Algerian state in Central Maghreb in 1518, to become an effective institution and influential religious social, cultural and economic in the community in the sense that they are taking care of the needs of society, The poor, the needy, the strangers, the sons and daughters of the Muslims in the prisons of the Christians, as well as the houses of worship and the educational and health institutions.

In Algeria, several endowment institutions have been established to ensure the organization of endowments affiliated to them and direct their income to meet the requirements of society. At the head of these endowment institutions was the Waqfs of the two Sacred Boundaries, which is considered one of the oldest Waqfs institutions in Algeria, as it dates back, according to some studies, to the first Islamic era. And during the period of the Algerian state in the Ottoman period, this Waqfs institution took the first place in terms of importance, due to the multiplicity of the Waqfs properties affiliated with it, and it acquired the majority of the endowments inside and around the city of Algeria, as well as in the rest of the other Algerian cities