Against the backdrop of a comatose or almost non-existent waqf system or institution in the Nigerian state, the thesis was designed with an wholistic objective of enhancing the operability of waqfs in Nigeria by ultimately prescribing policies and writing a waqf law for Nigeria such that will expedite establishing a sound and well-functioning waqf system in the country. Adopting qualitative research; in-country case studies, interviews, legal reasoning, descriptions and narratives, we studied the classical waqfs in Islam as well as the historic and modern experiences of waqf in selected countries of the (Muslim) world ...