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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