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Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law: Theory and Practice from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Century (Themes in Islamic Law)
Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law Theory and Practice from the Sixteenth to the TwentyFirst Century - Themes in Islamic Law
Author: Rudolph Peters
In recent years some of the more fundamentalist regimes in the developing world (such as those of Iran, Pakistan, Sudan and the northern states of Nigeria) have reintroduced Islamic law in place of western criminal codes. Rudolph Peters presents a detailed account of the classical doctrine and traces the enforcement of criminal law from the Otto...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521796705
ISBN-10: 0521796709
Publication Date: 3/27/2006
Pages: 232
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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