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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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
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Table of Contents:
- The politics of punishment
- The eschatology of punishment
- Legal dimensions of punishment.