The Court of Appeal in Kano has ruled that the daughter of the late Major Mohammed Arogun Adeniyi, Nike, and her Christian mother must share the deceased’s inheritance with the children of his other ...

The Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Lawal Pedro, SAN, has enjoined Imams and scholars to continue educating Muslims on inheritance in Islam. Pedro was the special guest ...

From In re Estate of Ahmad, decided Mar. 23 by the Maryland intermediate appellate court, in an opinion by Judge Dan Friedman, joined by Justices Douglas Nazarian and Terrence Zic: The decedent, Mehdi ...

CAIRO — This is not the first time that Saad Eddin El-Hilali, professor of comparative jurisprudence at Cairo’s prestigious Al-Azhar University, has caused a stir with a fatwa. In 2018, he had issued ...

Kenya’s Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling allowing children born out of wedlock to inherit from their Muslim fathers The justices unanimously dismissed a widow’s appeal to exclude two children ...