Sunni Endowment Office

The Sunni Endowment Office, or Sunni Endowment Diwan (Arabic: ديوان الوقف السني, romanized: Diwan al-Waqf al-Suniyi), is an Iraqi agency created by the Iraqi Governing Council after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.

[8] On 22 October 2003, the Iraqi Governing Council appointed Adnan al-Dulaimi as Office President.

[11] In November 2013, during a new escalation of Sunni insurgency, the Shiite prime minister Nouri al-Maliki suspended Office President Samarrai and appointed deputy Mahmud al-Sumaydai, considered[by whom?]

[12] In June 2015, new Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, head of a broad government coalition, appointed Abd al-Latif al-Humaym as Office President,[13][14] despite the veto of the Fiqh Council of Sunni Ulema, of Islamist tendency,[7] and the opposition of the Sunni Iraqi Fatwa Council, linked to the Popular Mobilization Forces and to Shiite parties.

[15] As soon as the Iraqi Army recaptured areas from Daesh, Office President Humaym cooperated to rebuild places destroyed by the war, such as the town of Ramadi after its liberation in 2016,[7] and the Great Mosque of al-Nuri of Mosul in 2018.