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Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law: Theory and Practice from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Century » (1st Edition)

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Authors: Rudolph Peters
ISBN-13: 9780521796705, ISBN-10: 0521796709
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: April 2006
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Rudolph Peters

Rudolf Peters is Professor of Islamic law at Amsterdam University. He has published extensively on modern Islam and Islamic law. His books include Jihad in Classical and Modern Islam (1996) and Sharia Criminal Law in Northern Nigeria (2003).

Book Synopsis

This is an account of the theory and practice of Islamic criminal law.

Table of Contents

1Introduction1
2The classical doctrine6
3The implementation of Islamic criminal law in the pre-modern period : the Ottoman Empire69
4The eclipse of Islamic criminal law103
5Islamic criminal law today142
6Conclusion186

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