Pakistan

Modern-day: Pakistan

Pakistan supplies several of the paper's clearest national-level data points: the 2017-18 Demographic and Health Survey finding on women's land and house inheritance, the country's Corruption Perceptions Index standing, and qualitative research on elder care and family structure in Karachi.

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Research Paper
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.