The references to women in the Koran range from personal issues to the question of divorce, and from the law of inheritance to fidelity and partnership in marriage.

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Yet Timur Kuran, a professor at America's Duke University, argues that the inheritance rules in Islamic family law may have slowed development in the past by making it harder to accumulate wealth.

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At least Mr Henderson, contemplating his awful inheritance, seems inclined to follow the first law of holes: stop digging.

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If someone from one EU member states dies in an EU state that is not their home country, inheritance issues would be dealt with under the law of the member state where they last had their "place of habitual residence".

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If so, the casualty would be Muslim family law, which governs marriage and inheritance for Muslims.

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