a reevaluation of religious and quaranic texts on women's'slood money

according to the most famous decrees from shia and sunni islamic jurists the blood money for a woman is half of that for a man. the islamic sentencing act which endorses this is derived from shia school of jurisprudence (article 300). the advocates of such ruling rely on some islamic texts but some of the sunni and shia jurists argue for equality between man and woman. this group of jurists, refuting the former group's arguments, in their belief of equality between men and women's blood money rely on the general understanding of the religious texts which do not favor inequality between men and women. in this paper the arguments of both groups will be discussed.