Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagination

Informationen zum Autor Magician Christian Lange has been working with Catherine Olen on her projects for many years and now has created his newest work for One Hundred Things to do at Walt Disney World Before you Die. Klappentext A study of the phenomenon of punishment in eleventh-to-thirteenth-century Islamic society. Zusammenfassung An in-depth study of the phenomenon of punishment! both divine and human! in eleventh-to-thirteenth-century Islamic society. This book examines the relationship between state and society in meting out justice! Muslim attitudes to hell and the legal dimensions of punishment. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. The Politics of Punishment: 1. Spheres and institutions of punishment; 2. Types of punishment; Part II. The Eschatology of Punishment: 3. The structure of hell; 4. Hell's creatures and their punishments; Part III. Legal Dimensions of Punishment: 5. Circumscribing hadd in Sunn¿ law; 6. Discretionary punishment and the public sphere.

Product details

• Authors: Christian Lange, Christian (University of Edinburgh) Lange
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.07.2008
• EAN: 9780521887823
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88782-3
• No. of pages: 302
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 230 mm x 26 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic C; Print on Demand
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous