Medievalist specialists who define the university as a legally autonomous corporation disagree with the term "university" for the Islamic madaris and jāmi‘ahs because the medieval university (from Latin universitas) was structurally different, being a legally autonomous corporation rather than a waqf institution like the <answer>madrasa and jāmiʻah</answer>. Despite the many similarities, medieval specialists have coined the term "Islamic college" for <answer>madrasa and jāmiʻah</answer> 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 are two examples of waqfs?
madrasa and jāmiʻah