The Islamic Law of Inheritance as a Formative Agent in Muslim Society. Also the Rejection of Aristotlean Logic

by Carol M. Fuller

Overview

In recent decades Muslim awareness of their serious lag in prosperity and scientific achievements has angered and humiliated them, and this in turn has lead a few individuals into violence against the West.

Here are answers to key reasons the West is prosperous and democratic, and people in Muslim lands are not: laws in the West promote growth of producative property owned by private citizens but laws in Islam discourage this growth. Inheritance in Islam divides farms and businesses among many people, and Muslims attempt to reassemble these units. An important avenue in this goal is extreme male domination of women (and control of their inherited portions) and patriarchial domination of young men (and control of their fragments of productive property). Tight societies result that are not communistic but are solidly communal.

Muslims are unable to analyze the sources of their difficulties because around the 12th century they abandoned the use of logical processes developed by the ancient Greeks.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940044644045
Publisher:	Carol M. Fuller
Publication date:	05/12/2013
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Carol Fuller has always been curious about how the world works, and even while tending to her children often had a book of economic history, political science or sociology in her hand. Or she was saving newspaper clippings and internet printouts that offered enlightenment. She enjoys being free to peruse the great libraries in her area trying to make unusual connecttions among different academic disciplines, especially about the how and why of Islam.
Her college education was overbalanced in chemistry and biological sciences. Before tackling how Muslims are handicapped by inheritance laws and by their astonishing rejection of reason she wrote "The Muslim Economic Trap" emphasising both ecoomics and terrorism. (An earlier work presented a "Slice of American History" built around the experiences of her husband's extended family in colonial New England gradually moving to the Midwest.) Her feeling for Muslims for letting their law and theology make life so difficult for themselves is one of sympathy--and also hope.