15past15 Podcast Series

S02E12 Beshara Doumani explains what strategies had to be considered in planning for property devolution after death through the waqf in seventeenth- to nineteenth-century Ottoman Syria—and the wider significance of this story for understanding the role of the family in Middle Eastern history. Interviewed by Birgit Tremml-Werner and Martin Dusinberre; produced by Dario Willi.