Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagination / Christian Lange.
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 deployed to cope with the suffering caused by punishment? These questions are explored in Christian Lange...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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2008.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
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| Summary: | 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 deployed to cope with the suffering caused by punishment? These questions are explored in Christian Lange's in-depth study of the phenomenon of punishment, both divine and human, in eleventh-to-thirteenth-century Islamic society. The book examines the relationship between state and society in meting out justice, Muslim attitudes to hell and the punishments that were in store in the afterlife, and the legal dimensions of punishment. The cross-disciplinary approach embraced in this study, which is based on a wide variety of Persian and Arabic sources, sheds light on the interplay between theory and practice in Islamic criminal law, and between executive power and the religious imagination of medieval Muslim society at large. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Dec 2011). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780511497254 0511497253 9780521887823 0521887828 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511497254 |