Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law
Subtitle: Theory and Practice from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Century (Themes in Islamic Law)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 3, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780521792264
Subjects: World history; Renaissance; Islam - Law; History: World; History; Religion - World Religions; Religious aspects; Islamic Studies; Islam - History; History / Middle East; Religion / Islam / Law; Religion : Islam - History; Social Science : Islamic Studies; Crime; Criminal law (Islamic law); Islam; Punishment (Islamic law)
First sentence: This book deals with criminal or penal law (I will use both terms indiscriminately), the body of law that regulates the power of the state to inflict punishment, i.e. suffering, on persons in order to enforce compliance with certain rules.