Muhammad Abd al-Latif Qandil
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Muhammad Abd al-Latif Qandil is a contemporary Egyptian scholar of Shafi'i jurisprudence and an academic at Al-Azhar University, known for his work on family law and estate division, Fiqh al-Nikah wa al-Faraid (The Jurisprudence of Marriage and Inheritance).
Academic Career and Teaching
Muhammad Abd al-Latif Muhammad Qandil served as a lecturer in Shafi'i jurisprudence within the Department of General Jurisprudence at the Faculty of Islamic and Arabic Studies for Girls in Alexandria, a constituent college of Al-Azhar University. His teaching focused primarily on the legal rulings governing domestic relations, personal status, and successions in Islamic jurisprudence.
His textbook Fiqh al-Nikah wa al-Faraid was compiled from his university lectures to provide a structured curriculum on domestic relations and inheritance. The work begins with a concise comparative survey of the status of women before and after Islam, followed by legal analyses of marriage (nikah), repudiation (talaq), mutual separation (khul'), revocation of divorce (raj'a), post-marital waiting periods ('idda), oaths of abstinence (ila'), injurious comparison (zihar), legal expiations (kaffara), mutual imprecation (li'an), and the calculation and division of shares in estates (fara'id).
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Fiqh al-Nikah wa al-Faraid (The Jurisprudence of Marriage and Inheritance) is a textbook on Islamic family law and the rules of estate division. Originating as university lectures designed to expound the detailed rulings of Islamic personal status law and inheritance, it begins with a concise historical survey contrasting the condition and legal status of women before and after Islam before examining the core jurisprudence governing domestic relations and estate distribution.