-Orientalist Attitude towards Women's Inheritance Rights -analytical study

Abstract

Some orientalists took the case to defend the rights of women as a means to challenge the justice of Islamic law and distort its advantages, criticizing the legal provisions regarding Muslim women, such as inheritance provisions. Although this hostility and distortion is the root of the writings of many orientalists, a group of them recognized the right and stated it, declaring the bankruptcy of Western civilization in preserving women's rights and preserving their chastity, and recognized the distinction of Islamic law in honoring women rights and chastity.

The research highlights these moderate positions, as God commands us to deal using justice even with violators, and these moderate Western words will be an argument for the ungrateful to the justice of Islamic law, including the Orientalists and their followers.

This research discusses the orientalists attitude towards the right of women regarding inheritance, stating what Islamic Sharia has guaranteed to women including financial rights, and cases in which the woman’s share in the inheritance is more than or equal to that of the man, and the situation in which the man has more than the woman’s share and the wisdom behind that.