Qur'anic Verse
An-Nisa 4:11-12
"God instructs you concerning your children: for the male, the equivalent of the share of two females; and if there are only daughters, two or more, they shall have two-thirds of what is left, and if there is one, she shall have half. For parents, a sixth each of what is left, if the deceased left a child... These are set shares from God, and God is Knowing, Wise." (v.11, condensed; v.12 sets further fixed shares for spouses and, in the absence of direct heirs, siblings.)
Revert Way rendering (condensed), in the style of early public-domain English translations (cf. Pickthall 1930)
Content discussing this verse
- Research Paper
Islam or Muslim Culture? Measuring the Distance Between Revelation and Practice
How do you tell Islam itself apart from the cultures that grew up around it? This essay tests inheritance law, national governance, elder care, and charitable giving against the Qur'an's own text, and asks a harder question too: can a country call itself Islamic on population alone, or should it also be judged by how well it reflects the Qur'an's own ethical demands?
- Research Paper
Women in Mainstream Islam: Protection, Restriction, and the Historical Development of Religious Practice
A historical-critical review testing whether practices commonly described as Islamic requirements for women — segregation, face-veiling, travel guardianship, exclusion from mosques and public office — rest on the Qur'an itself or on later hadith, jurisprudence, dynastic custom, and regional practice.