Sexual Violation in Islamic Law - Substance, Evidence, and Procedure

Informationen zum Autor Hina Azam is an Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. She has published articles in the Journal of Law and Religion, the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, and Comparative Islamic Studies. She has contributed to the edited volumes Feminism, Law, and Religion (2013) and A Jihad for Justice: Honoring the Work and Life of Amina Wadud (2012), as well as to The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Law (forthcoming). Klappentext Centered on legal discourses of Islam's first six centuries, this book analyzes juristic writings on the topic of rape. Zusammenfassung Centered on legal discourses of the first six centuries of Islam! this book provides a detailed analysis of Islamic scholarly writings on the topic of rape and argues that classical Islamic jurisprudence contained highly nuanced and substantially divergent doctrines of sexual violation as a punishable crime. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Sexual violation in the Late Antique Near East; 2. Tracing rape in early Islamic law; 3. Rape as a property crime - the Mäliki¿ approach; 4. Rape as a moral transgression - the H¿anafi¿ approach; 5. Proving rape in H¿anafi¿ law - substance, evidence, procedure; 6. Proving rape in Mäliki¿ law - evidence, procedure, penalty; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Hina Azam, Hina (University of Texas Azam, Azam Hina
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781107476066
• ISBN: 978-1-107-47606-6
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic C; Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Islam, HISTORY / Middle East / General, Islamic Law, Middle Eastern history, Systems of law: Islamic law