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List Books » Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law: Theory and Practice from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Century
Authors: Rudolph Peters
ISBN-13: 9780521796705, ISBN-10: 0521796709
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: April 2006
Edition: 1st Edition
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).
This is an account of the theory and practice of Islamic criminal law.
1 | Introduction | 1 |
2 | The classical doctrine | 6 |
3 | The implementation of Islamic criminal law in the pre-modern period : the Ottoman Empire | 69 |
4 | The eclipse of Islamic criminal law | 103 |
5 | Islamic criminal law today | 142 |
6 | Conclusion | 186 |