Why Islamic land tool?
The main reasons justify the development of Islamic Land Tools: • Islam (20 % of World Population) is one of the global religions which has an established sets of land related ‘laws’, religious dispositions, ruling and practices with major impacts on land administration property rights land fragmentation, land finances, gender, inheritance, especially in countries where Islam is the State religion. • Additionally, Islamic land tools will contribute to address the exclusion of Islamic law and systems from modern debates about access to land and security of tenure. ‘Authentic’ Islamic land tools can support the campaign for the realization of fuller land rights for various sections of Muslim societies including women. • There are many lessons to be learnt from the Islamic land Law, particularly the pro-poor and the gender sensitiveness. For example, Initial funded research in Islamic land law (Siraj and Lim, 2006) pointed that Islamic land tenure regimesoffer a variety of options relatin
