Design of an Expert System to Calculate Inheritance Shares Based on Islamic Law

Death is an inevitable end that comes only when it comes. Part of the preparation to death is ensuring that one’s assets are shared among the benefactors without rancor. Islam has defined the sharing formula of the properties of the deceased. The concept of inheritance from Islamic perspectives calls for no debate. The major challenge is how to get this knowledge to all in a more convenient and unambiguous form. This paper discusses the modeling of a rule-based expert system to calculate inheritance shares based on Islamic law.