Women, Islamic Inheritance and History

A view of what women could own and inherit in the early Middle Ages around the Middle East and the Mediterranean.
Analysing the inheritance laws as laid out in the Koran. The text in the Koran is so bad and so unclear that scholars, experts and electronic calculators all divert from the non-sensical Koranic texts. This shows that the Koran can't possibly have been conceived, designed and written by a god, who is supposedly perfect, but stems from humans living hundreds of years ago.

I do not criticise humans who sincerely believe a god exists and has issued these laws. It just shows they are believing a book is true in spite of proof that shows this book was written by other humans.


Sources:

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/law/lwsch/journals/bciclr/23_2/01_TXT.htm

http://www.womenintheancientworld.com/hammurabilawcode.htm

http://mailer.fsu.edu/~jsicking/cla3501/lec8.html

http://www.islam101.com/sociology/inheritance.htm

http://chs.harvard.edu/wb/1/wo/UyxowKEZaNjw8eRQl7Kwg0/0.1

http://www.omanforum.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-3960.html

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Islam-947/Quran-Inheritance-f-Law-1.htm

http://www.sofexindia.com

http://www.lubnaa.com/money/InheritCalc.php

http://www.islamchannel.tv/pages/InheritCalculator.aspx

http://www.muslimpersonallaw.co.za/Inheritance%20according%20to%20Islamic%20Sharia%20Law.pdf


Background:
Music compiled from different mash-ups and interpretations of the Daft Punk "Around the World" theme
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