A Comparative Study of Inheritance in Islam – Abdurraghiem Hasan Sallie

•Publisher: Red Kufi Books
•ISBN: 978-0-620-38005-8
•Pages: 384
•Binding: Softcover

Sketching a background to Islam’s position on the subject, Sallie takes the reader through inheritance laws before the advent of Islam, under the Egyptians, the ancient Greeks, and Romans and in parts of Europe as well as Russia. For the Muslim reader, he details the laws and ramifications of inheritance according to the four major schools of thought (Madha-hib). Amongst the detail provided in this book is the inheritance of the unborn child as well as the Quranic texts on determining the shortest period of pregnancy, the decree of the inheritance of a missing person as well as that of the illegitimate child.