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Women In Islam Quite a controversial topic, isn’t it? It is bound to give rise to a difference of opinions when 1.6 billion Muslims, a minority […]
Female Empowerment
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Disinheriting Women Inheritance in legal terms is the property received from an ancestor under the laws of inheritance or property that a person receives by bequest […]