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1 online resource (vii, 290 pages) |
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Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization |
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Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; The historical context; General conditions of punishment under the Saljuqs; Part I: the politics of punishment; Part II: the eschatology of punishment; Part III: legal dimensions of punishment; Part 1 The politics of punishment; Chapter 1 Spheres and institutions of punishment; Private punishments; The cultural logic of private punishment; Punishments carried out before the ruler's tribunal; Banner and throne symbolism in the courtly tribunal; Public punishments |
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Institutions of justice and the question of mazalim under the SaljuqsThe ideology of siyasa; Punishment by the judge; The police (shihna, shurta); The shihna-policeman; Punishment by the market-inspector (muhtasib); Chapter 2 Types of punishment; Execution by the sword; Gibbeting (salb/bar dar kardan); Other forms of capital punishment; Maimed bodies, maimed faces; Torture (tadhib/shikanja); Flogging and flogging instruments; Shaming (tashhir); Elements of the tashhïr punishment; Imprisonment; Banishment and exile; Part II The eschatology of punishment; Chapter 3 The structure of hell |
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Sins and the uncertainty of salvationLists of grave sins in the hadith tradition; Popular expressions of the uncertainty of salvation; Fear in Muslim eschatology; The Muslim hell in Western scholarship; Theological preliminary: hell's coexistence; Hell's shape and location; Inside hell; Hell's size, smells, colors, and meteorological properties; Geographical characteristics of hell; Hell's flora; The architecture of hell; Hell as prison; Hell as a place of exile; Chapter 4 Hell's creatures and their punishments; Hell's angels; Animals in hell; Types of punishment in hell |
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Structuralist functions of the imaginaire of hellDidactic dimensions of the Muslim hell; Common people in hell; Men of religion in hell; Rulers and their representatives in hell; Publicness and shame in hell; Defacing and other marks of sinners in hell; Performative dimensions of the Muslim imaginaire of hell; Ritual aspects of tashhimacrr; Part III Legal dimensions of punishment; Chapter 5 Circumscribing hadd in Sunni law; Analogy and punishment in Western and Islamic law; The Hanafi rejection of analogical reasoning (qiyas) in the divinely ordained punishments; Theological premises |
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Epistemological aspectsTerminological differences between Hanafite and Shafiite qiyas; Sodomy (liwat) vs. fornication (zina) in Hanafi substantive law (furu); Arguments from Prophetic tradition (hadith); Lexicographical arguments; Semantic arguments; Sodomy, privacy, and morality; Chapter 6 Discretionary punishment (tazir) and the public sphere; Discretionary punishment (tazir) and sodomy; Discretionary punishment and public sins; False testimony (shahadat al-zur) and shaming in Islamic law; Ritual parading on animals; Blackening of the face (taswid al-wajh) |
| 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 l |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Punishment -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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Punishment -- Islamic countries -- History -- To 1500
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Punishment (Islamic law) -- History -- To 1500
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
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Punishment
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Punishment (Islamic law)
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Punishment -- Religious aspects -- Islam
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Islamic countries
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0521887828 |
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9780521887823 |
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051141479X |
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9780511414794 |
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9780511415470 |
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0511415478 |
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9780511414145 |
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0511414145 |
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9780511497254 |
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0511497253 |
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9781107404618 |
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1107404614 |
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