International

Post conflict land challenges in Muslim contexts

Training package on land, property and housing rights in the Muslim World

Over 20 percent of the world’s population is influenced to varying degrees by Islamic principles, which intersect customary, informal and statutory land laws. Despite their relevance, global land reviews and interventions rarely consider the application of Islamic land principles.

Presentation made at the WIPR Capacity Building Workshop, 14-18 June 2010

The presentation focused on the decision of the Religious Appellate Court of Jakarta which recognized women’s equal right to inheritance.

E.J. Brill’s First Encyclopedia of Islam 1913-1936

The Holy Qur’an: text, translation and commentary

Chapter IV; Verses 11, 12, and 176 are the three main verses which deal with inheritance. There are also other verses which have a bearing on the question of inheritance.

Women in Muslim Family Law

This second revised edition of John L. Esposito's landmark work expands and updates coverage of family law reforms -- marriage, divorce, and inheritance -- throughout the Middle East, North Africa, South and Southeast Asia.

“What is our share? A look at the laws of inheritance”

Qur’anic verses define as heirs several classes of kin that were previously unable to inherit – most notably women such as wives, daughters, mothers and sisters – and distributed the estate in an equitable way that was a drastic improvement from the pre-Islamic scheme. The Qur’an specifies three main classes of heirs: (1) the Qur’anic heirs called “Sharers,” (2) agnatic heirs called “Residuaries,” and (3) uterine heirs called “Distant Kindred.” Not all possible heirs always inherit; some classes may exclude others, and some heirs within a class may exclude others within the same class.

“The myth of misogyny: a re-analysis of women’s inheritance in Islamic law”

In this article Chaudhry argues that the ratio of distribution between men and women is not two to one in all cases where men and women of the same class are inheriting together, and more importantly, that the distribution of inheritance through the fixed shares legislated by the Qur’an is not inherently gender-discriminatory, nor based on concepts of gender inferiority. If this was true, it would violate the two most central concepts of Islamic law.

Succession in the Muslim Family

In this comprehensive study, Professor Coulson discusses the classical Islamic law as it applied to problems of succession and reforms introduced by modern statutes.

"Islamic Inheritance"

The Encyclopedia of Law and Society is the largest comprehensive and international treatment of the law and society field. The three volumes of this state-of-the-art resource represent interdisciplinary perspectives on law from sociology, criminology, cultural anthropology, political science, social psychology, and economics.