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Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagination

By Christian Lange

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0521887828, 9780521887823
LCC
KBP3946 .L36 2008
Open Library ID
OL22698007M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2850558 bytes)
Series
Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
Edition
1
Pages
303\303
Topic
History
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50
Исторические дисциплины;История стран Азии и Африк

Description

How was the use of violence against Muslims explained and justified in medieval Islam? What role did state punishment play in delineating the private from the public sphere? What strategies were deployed to cope with the suffering caused by punishment? These questions are explored in Christian Lange's in-depth study of the phenomenon of punishment, both divine and human, in eleventh-to-thirteenth-century Islamic society. The book examines the relationship between state and society in meting out justice, Muslim attitudes to hell and the punishments that were in store in the afterlife, and the legal dimensions of punishment. The cross-disciplinary approach embraced in this study, which is based on a wide variety of Persian and Arabic sources, sheds light on the interplay between theory and practice in Islamic criminal law, and between executive power and the religious imagination of medieval Muslim society at large.

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