Here is a question about this article: Medievalist specialists who define the university as a legally autonomous corporation disagree with the term "university" for the Islamic madaris and jami'ahs because the medieval university (from Latin universitas) was structurally different, being a legally autonomous corporation rather than a waqf institution like the madrasa and jamiah. Despite the many similarities, medieval specialists have coined the term "Islamic college" for madrasa and jamiah to differentiate them from the legally autonomous corporations that the medieval European universities were. In a sense, the madrasa resembles a university college in that it has most of the features of a university, but lacks the corporate element. Toby Huff summarises the difference as follows:
What is the answer to this question: What are two examples of waqfs?
madrasa and jamiah