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Inheritance
(5,230 words)
Rules for the division of wealth (q.v.) among the heirs of a deceased Muslim man or woman.
Traditional Islamic perspective Traditional Islamic sources indicate that the intergenerational transmission of property by means of a last will and testament
(waṣiyya) was a common procedure prior to the rise of Islam and during the Meccan period (see pre-islamic arabia and the qurʾān ). The emigration (q.v.;
hijra ) to Medina (q.v.) in 1/622 necessitated certain changes in the existing inheritance rules. By migrating to Medina, the Emigrants (
muhājirūn, see emigrants and helpers ) effectively…
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