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Aḥkām al-mawārīth (Rules of inheritance) is a textbook on Islamic law regulating the inheritance of money and property. The book’s author, Muhammad Muhyi al-Din ‘Abd al-Hamid (died 1972), was a lecturer at al-Azhar in Cairo and the Higher Academy of Law in Khartoum, Sudan, and a widely published scholar in Islamic heritage subjects. In his introduction ‘Abd al-Hamid explains that the foundations of the laws of inheritance are, first, the Qur’an, next the hadiths of the Prophet Muhammad, and third the determination of jurists. In Islamic law, ‘ilm ...