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The Application of Islamic Criminal Law in Pakistan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 429

The Application of Islamic Criminal Law in Pakistan

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: BRILL

No legal system in the world has aroused as much public interest as Sharia. However, the discourse around Sharia law is largely focussed on its development and the theories, principles and rules that inform it. Less attention has been given to studying the consequences of its operation, particularly in the area of Islamic criminal law. Even fewer studies explore the actual practice of Islamic criminal law in contemporary societies. This book aims to fill these gaps in our understanding of Sharia law in practice. It deals specifically with the consequences of enforcing Islamic criminal law in Pakistan, providing an in-depth and critical analysis of the application of the Islamic law of Qisas and Diyat (retribution and blood money) in the Muslim world today. The empirical evidence adduced more broadly demonstrates the complications of applying traditional Sharia in a modern state.

The Application of Islamic Criminal Law in Pakistan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 428

The Application of Islamic Criminal Law in Pakistan

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-02-28
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  • Publisher: BRILL

No legal system in the world has aroused as much public interest as Sharia. However, the discourse around Sharia law is largely focussed on its development and the theories, principles and rules that inform it. Less attention has been given to studying the consequences of its operation, particularly in the area of Islamic criminal law. Even fewer studies explore the actual practice of Islamic criminal law in contemporary societies. This book aims to fill these gaps in our understanding of Sharia law in practice. It deals specifically with the consequences of enforcing Islamic criminal law in Pakistan, providing an in-depth and critical analysis of the application of the Islamic law of Qisas and Diyat (retribution and blood money) in the Muslim world today. The empirical evidence adduced more broadly demonstrates the complications of applying traditional Sharia in a modern state.

Locating the Sharīʿa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 282

Locating the Sharīʿa

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-02-04
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume is intended for both the novice and expert as a companion to understanding the evolution of the field of Islamic law, the current work that is shaping this field, and the new directions the sharīʿa will take in the twenty-first/fifteenth century.

Understanding Pakistan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 424

Understanding Pakistan

Understanding Pakistan: Emerging Voices from India is the outcome of a national seminar for research scholars on Pakistan organized by the Centre for Pakistan Studies at the MMAJ Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. The aim of the seminar was to explore how young minds in India view Pakistan, the quintessential ‘enemy’ country or the ‘other’ of India. The range of topics included issues related to Pakistan’s politics, economy, popular culture, education, environment, sectarian divide, minorities, policy towards Jammu & Kashmir and foreign relations. The established academic discourse on Pakistan in India is largely dominated by concerns linked to secur...

Pakistan and Human Rights
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 309

Pakistan and Human Rights

  • Categories: Law

Pakistan and Human Rights consists of a series of innovative and carefully chosen chapters by leading experts and specialists in the field of human rights law. With contributions from young emerging scholars, many of whom live and work in Pakistan, this volume takes a critical look at the legal ordering of human rights issues in Pakistan today.

Religious Offence and Human Rights
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 491

Religious Offence and Human Rights

  • Categories: Law

Should offence to religions be punishable by law, or does freedom of expression extend even to blasphemy? This book examines this question.

Our Hindu Rashtra
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Our Hindu Rashtra

India has taken so sharp a turn in recent years that the very centre has shifted considerably. What led to this swing? Is it possible to trace the path to this point? Is there a way back to the just, secular, inclusive vision of our Constitution-makers? This country has long been an outlier in its South Asian neighbourhood, with its inclusive Constitution and functioning democracy. The growth of Hindutva, in some sense, brings India in line with the other polities here. In Our Hindu Rashtra, writer and activist Aakar Patel peels back layer after layer of cause and effect through independent India's history to understand how Hindutva came to gain such a hold on the country. He examines what i...

Democracy Under God
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 233

Democracy Under God

  • Categories: Law

Empirically analyzes Islam and human rights in constitutions of Muslim-majority states and theorizes why some adopted Islam in their constitutions.

Courting Constitutionalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

Courting Constitutionalism

  • Categories: Law

Presents a deeply contextualized account of public law and judicial review in Pakistan.

Shari'a and the Constitution in Contemporary Legal Models
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Shari'a and the Constitution in Contemporary Legal Models

Zusammenfassung: GLOBAL ISSUES Series Editors: Jim Whitman · Paolo D. Farah This comparative law book aims at formulating a new analytical approach to constitutional comparisons, assuming as a starting point the different legal perspectives implied in the (Sunni) Islamic outlook on the juridical phenomena and the Western concept of law, with particular reference to constitutionalism. The volume adopts a wider and comprehensive viewpoint, comparing the different ways in which the Islamic sharī ʿa and Western legal categories interact, regardless of substantive contents of specific provisions, thus avoiding conceptual biases that can sometime affect present literature on the matter. The boo...