This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
Oman's Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs (MoARA) carries a wider brief than its name alone suggests. Registering, developing and investing waqf endowment assets across Oman is its founding purpose, but the Ministry also manages zakat collection and distribution, administers orphans' and minors' funds, and oversees mosque administration and religious affairs nationally, four distinct functions gathered under one government body rather than split across separate agencies as several neighbouring states divide them.
That breadth shows in how the Ministry reports on itself. Rather than a single annual figure, MoARA publishes yearly performance data across each of its separate mandates: endowment asset growth, zakat revenue, and fund investment returns, each measured against a stated yearly target set in advance, presented together at a public year end review.
Measuring performance against self-set targets, rather than against an external benchmark, is itself a choice about how a religious-affairs ministry can be held accountable in a system with no equivalent institution to compare it against, and it is the frame within which every other figure attributed to MoARA in this record should be read.