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Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagination (Hardcover)
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Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagination (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
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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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