1 THE BRITISH LEGISLATION IN MALAYA AND ITS IMPACT UPON THE MALAYSIAN WAQF SYSTEM. BY MURAT ÇİZAKÇA INCEIF (Global University in Islamic Finance) KUALA LUMPUR Paper submitted at the Second Harvard Conference: “Law of Waqf, Modern State Control and Nationalization”, May 16-18, 2008, Harvard Law School. To be published in Randi Deguilhem and Peri Bearman (eds.), Colonizing Waqf: Colonial Law of the Islamic Foundations, (London: Tauris, forthcoming).