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)

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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.

An-Nisa 4:11-12

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Women in Mainstream Islam: Protection, Restriction, and the Historical Development of Religious Practice