Tag Archives: Islamic Criminal Law

This article will critically examine al-Shāfi’ī’s complex views on the use of qiyās as a method for establishing culpability under Islamic criminal law and, then explore how his position corresponds to the human rights paradigm in the contemporary age...

The concept of Islamic Law has not been precisely defined, as some authors use the terms to reference the Shari’a while use it to refer to fiqh (jurisprudence)...

This study argues that the discourse on hudud would not be complete unless hard questions surrounding its substance and practical procedures are....

Implementation of Islamic criminal law particularly of the hudud at present time, beyond its politics, raises numerous juridical problems of substantive law, procedure and...

The book “Principles of Islamic International Criminal Law: A Comparative Search” debates the substance of Islamic international criminal law and the system of international criminal law side by side and offers the message that no law is superior to justice, peace and a...

Islamic law, and criminal law in particular, have been closed since its heyday of legal scholarship to external influences and new theoretical arguments and constructs...

The book “Islamic Property Law: Cases and Materials for Comparative Analysis with the Common Law” is the first casebook of its kind to offer Islamic law training to American law students in the...

The author of the book aims to examine some of the provisions of these two legal systems considering the growing importance of...

Based on a sample of trials, the present thesis discusses the introduction of Islamic criminal law and the evolution of judicial practice within the regions historical, cultural, political and...

This book considers an important and largely neglected area of Islamic law by exploring how medieval Muslim jurists resolved...