Qur'anic Verse

An-Nisa 4:7

"For men is a share of what the parents and close relatives leave, and for women is a share of what the parents and close relatives leave, be it little or much -- an obligatory share."

Revert Way rendering (condensed), in the style of early public-domain English translations (cf. Pickthall 1930)

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Islam or Muslim Culture? Measuring the Distance Between Revelation and Practice
A historical-critical essay testing whether practices commonly defended as Islamic -- from denying women their Qur'anic inheritance shares to state corruption and the political shaping of orthodoxy -- rest on the Qur'an itself, or on later interpretation, historical tradition, absorbed local custom, and political authority defended in revelation's name.

An-Nisa 4:7

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Islam or Muslim Culture? Measuring the Distance Between Revelation and Practice