And this was the keystone of the fabric built up by the...

And this was the keystone of the fabric built up by the ablest monarch of the House of Abbas, Mansur, the real founder of the Sunni Church." (Ibid, p.76) And as a result, the Sunni Law still retains largely the customary rule of pre-Islamic Arabs. Ameer `Ali says: "The rule of agnacy has thus remained, chiefly from dynastic reasons, a part of Sunni system. In early times it was strongly enforced as under the old Romans.

If a person died without leaving any 'agnatic' relations but a daughter's or sister's child, his property did not go to the latter but escheated to the Caliph (i.e. was taken over by…