[2] The League has supported a revival of the traditional waqf system of private welfare, which includes separation of schools from government control.
The proceedings of a 1998 conference organized by the League noted: "The waqf system is in harmony with the principle of economic freedom, which was historically at the basis of the Islamic economy.
The waqf system allowed, on the one hand, to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor and, on the other, to support public utilities, such as mosques, hospitals and schools that must not, in a true Islamic state, be a government duty.
In March 2005 the League announced a conference to be held in Morocco in September on "Islam and the West: Constant Relations and New Challenges".
[4] The fourth general conference of the Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World (FUIW) was held on 4–5 April 2007 in Kuwait.