Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law - Theory and Practice from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Century - Rudolph Peters - Paperback Bog - Cambridge
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Description
This book, first published in 2006, gives a detailed account of the classical doctrine of Islamic law and traces the enforcement of criminal law from the Ottoman period to the present day. The accounts of actual cases which range from theft, banditry, murder, fornication and apostasy shed light on the complexities of the law.
