Bequests as an Instrument for Accommodating Inheritance Rules: Israel as a Case Study

Abstract Freedom of civil testation available, since 1965, to Israeli Muslims within some of the sharīʿa courts, has replaced the family waqf as an instrument for circumventing the compulsory rules of inheritance (ʿilm al-farāʾid). This marks in many respects the victory of custom over the sharīʿa....

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Main Author: Layish, Aharon (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 1995
In: Islamic law and society
Year: 1995, Volume: 2, Issue: 3, Pages: 282-319
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