Ayūb traces the Waqf system in Egypt back through its history. The article mentions that the golden age of the Waqf system was the 12^th-18^th centuries. The system was continued throughout Muhammad ‘Alī’s era and he used revenue from the Waqf system to fund his own projects to modernize Egypt. However in the aftermath of the 1952 Revolution a law was passed to prohibit waqfs and a land reform law was promulgated to place a ceiling of 200 feddans on land ownership.