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Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagination

ISBN: 9781107404618 | 1107404614
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 7/19/2012

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SummaryTable of Contents
An in-depth study of the phenomenon of punishment, both divine and human, in eleventh-to-thirteenth-century Islamic society. This 2010 book examines the relationship between state and society in meting out justice, Muslim attitudes to hell and the legal dimensions of punishment.
This book was first published in 2008. How was the use of violence against Muslims explained and justified in medieval Islam? What role did state punishment play in delineating the private from the public sphere? What strategies were deploy... MORE
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Introduction
The Politics of Punishment
Spheres and institutions of punishment
Types of punishment
The Eschatology of Punishment
The structure of hell
Hell's creatures and their punishments
Legal Dimensions of Punishment
Circumscribing hadd in Sunni law
Discretionary punishment and the public sphere
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