Peters Rudolph. Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law

Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 220 p.Rudolph Peters' book, first published in 2006, is about crimes and their punishments as laid down in Islamic law. In recent years some of the more fundamentalist regimes, such as those of Iran, Pakistan, Sudan and the rthern states of Nigeria have reintroduced Islamic law in place of western criminal codes. Peters gives a detailed account of the classical doctrine and traces the enforcement of criminal law from the Ottoman period to the present day. The accounts of actual cases which range from theft, banditry, murder, fornication and apostasy shed light on the complexities of the law, and the sensitivity and perspicacity of the qadis who implemented it. This is the first single-authored account of both the theory and practice of Islamic criminal law. It will be invaluable for students, and scholars in the field, as well as for professionals looking for comprehensive coverage of the topic.Книга описывает историю и современное состояние мусульманского права.Acknowledgements page
MapsThe classical doctrineEnforcement and procedure
General principles of substantive criminal law
The penalties
Homicide and bodily harm
Hadd offences
Discretionary punishment on the strength of tazır and siyasa
The implementation of Islamic criminal law in the pre-modern period: the Ottoman EmpireShari a and qanun
The enforcement agencies
Procedure
Substantive law
The eclipse of Islamic criminal lawAnglo-Muh.ammadan criminal law and its demise: British India and Nigeria
Legal dualism: the separation between the domains of Sharia and siyasa: the Ottoman Empire and Egypt
Islamic criminal law todayUninterrupted application of Islamic criminal law: the example of Saudi Arabia
The reintroduction of Islamic criminal law
Islamic criminal law and human rights standardsGlossary of technical termsSuggestions for further reading