wakeuh / wakaf-land (English: “Religious endowment land”) is a term or concept described in Jongejan’s Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu in relation to Aceh. Land withdrawn from ordinary traffic and dedicated to a purpose permitted by Islamic law.
Translation
Religious endowment land
Description
Land withdrawn from ordinary traffic and dedicated to a purpose permitted by Islamic law. Many self-standing mukims owe their independence to a Sultan’s wakeuh-declaration of their territory (likely for political reasons).
Significance
The term wakeuh / wakaf-land is recorded by Jongejan as part of the cultural, administrative, or institutional vocabulary of Aceh.
See Also
Source
Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu, by J. Jongejans, Oud-Resident van het Gewest Atjeh en Onderhoorigheden, with a foreword by Dr. H. Colijn (Baarn: Hollandia Drukkerij N.V., c. 1938), pp. 335.