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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, 9780511415470
LCC
KBP3946 .L36 2008
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3049954 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
Edition
1
Pages
304\302
Topic
Education
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

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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