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Does the Egyptian Ministry of Awqaf publish a breakdown isolating Al-Azhar's own endowment share from the national waqf estate?

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Al-Azhar's waqf endowments were nationalized into Egypt's Ministry of Awqaf in 1952; the Ministry administers the national waqf estate as a whole and no source found in this pass isolates Al-Azhar's own share of it, so no current valuation of Al-Azhar's institutional wealth can be attested.

What would resolve this A Ministry of Awqaf or Egyptian government disclosure, or an independent scholarly study of Egypt's waqf sector, that breaks out Al-Azhar's own endowment holdings from the national total.
OpenIslamic economics / Egyptian public administrationAl-Azhar Mosque (Wikipedia)
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Al-Azhar, Sacred Sites
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Al-Azhar Mosque (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationArticle body, history section, on the 1952 nationalization of Al-Azhar's waqfsView the Source
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