The Quranic Inheritance Law: The Case for a Gender-Neutral Understanding
By Abdur Rab* and Hasan Mahmud** ABSTRACT.This paper examines afresh the particular Quranic inheritance provision that the male heir should receive twice as much as the female counterpart. It reviews the important exceptions the Quran itself makes to this provision, which emphatically suggests that the stated discrimination against female heirs is not intrinsic to the … Read more