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In the four primary schools of Sunni fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) and the two primary schools of Shi'a fiqh, certain types of crimes mandate capital punishment. Qisas In the case of death, sharia gives the murder victim's nearest relative or Wali ( ولي ) a right to, if the court approves, take the life of the killer.
Tazir punishment is for actions which are considered sinful in Islam, undermine the Muslim community, or threaten public order during Islamic rule, but those that are not punishable as hadd or qisas crimes. [26] The legal restrictions on the exercise of that power are not specified in the Quran or the Hadiths, and vary. [3]
As well as corporal punishment, some Islamic countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iran use other kinds of physical penalties such as amputation or mutilation. [54] [55] [56] However, the term "corporal punishment" has since the 19th century usually meant caning, flagellation or bastinado rather than those other types of physical penalty.
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Many Islamic nations have laws that have their base in Sharia law, which permits capital punishments for various acts. [3] However, not all Islamic nations have the death penalty as a legal punishment. Many early Christians were strongly opposed to the death penalty, and magistrates who enforced it could be excommunicated. Attitudes gradually ...
Islamic law divides crimes into three different categories depending on the offense – Hudud (crimes "against God", [1] whose punishment is fixed in the Quran and the Hadiths), Qisas (crimes against an individual or family whose punishment is equal retaliation in the Quran and the Hadiths), and Tazir (crimes whose punishment is not specified ...
A comprehensive list of discriminatory acts against American Muslims might be impossible, but The Huffington Post wants to document this deplorable wave of hate using news reports and firsthand accounts.
[140] [141] [142] Various fiqhs (schools of jurisprudence) of Islam have different punishment for blasphemy, depending on whether blasphemer is Muslim or non-Muslim, man or woman. [138] The punishment can be fines, imprisonment, flogging, amputation, hanging, or beheading. [143] [144] Muslim clerics may call for the punishment of an alleged ...