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Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law: Theory and Practice from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-first Century

By Rudolph Peters

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge UP
Year
2005
ISBN
9780521796705, 0521796709, 0521792266, 9780521792264, 9780511345371
LCC
KBP3791 .P48 2005
Google Books ID
Im95I7FjrvwC
Open Library ID
OL18487418M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2575527 bytes)
Series
Themes in islamic law 2
Pages
232\232
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

In recent years some of the more fundamentalist regimes in the developing world (such as those of Iran, Pakistan, Sudan and the northern states of Nigeria) have reintroduced Islamic law in place of western criminal codes. Rudolph Peters presents a detailed account of the classical doctrine and traces the enforcement of criminal law from the Ottoman period to the present day. Accounts of actual cases, ranging from theft and banditry to murder, fornication and apostasy, shed light on the complexities of the law, and the sensitivity and intelligence of the qadis who implemented it.

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