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Decapitation was the normal method of executing the death penalty under classical Islamic law. [28] It was also, together with hanging, one of the ordinary methods of execution in the Ottoman Empire. [29] Currently, Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world which uses decapitation within its Islamic legal system. [30]
The "premise and reasoning underlying the sunna rule of death penalty for apostasy were valid in the historical context" where 'disbelief is equated with high treason' because citizenship was 'based on belief in Islam', but doesn't apply today (Abdullahi An-Na'im, et al.); [205] [206] the prescription of death penalty for apostasy found in ...
Decapitation was the normal method of executing the death penalty under classical Islamic law. [10] [11] It was also, together with hanging, one of the ordinary methods of execution in the Ottoman Empire. [12] Currently, Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world which uses decapitation within its Islamic legal system. [13]
The fourteenth century Islamic jurist Ibn Taymiyyah included any form of disobedience as a Tazir offense, although his views were not accepted widely and listed several examples where there is no legal penalty in Sharia: [29] the man who kisses a boy or a woman unrelated to him by marriage or a very near kinship; [29] [need quotation to verify]
[29] [30] Jurists have differed as to whether apostasy and rebellion against a lawful Islamic ruler are hudud crimes. [24] [31] Hudud punishments range from public lashing to publicly stoning to death, amputation of hands and crucifixion. [32] Hudud crimes cannot be pardoned by the victim or by the state, and the punishments must be carried out ...
Apostasy (riddah, ردة or irtidad, ارتداد), leaving Islam for another religion or for atheism, [38] [39] is regarded as one of hudud crimes liable to capital punishment in traditional Maliki, Hanbali and Shia jurisprudence, but not in Hanafi and Shafi'i fiqh as the hudud are a kaffarah for the hudud offences, though these schools all ...
Iran and Iraq, for example, are very open about their frequent imposition of the death penalty, while the Islamic nation of Tunisia only imposes it in extremely rare cases. Sudan imposes the death penalty on those who are under the age of eighteen, while Yemen has taken a stand against the imposition of the death penalty on minors. [51]
The Mihna (Arabic: محنة خلق القرآن, romanized: miḥna khalaq al-qurʾān, lit. 'ordeal of Quranic createdness') (also known as the first Muslim inquisition) was a period of religious persecution instituted by the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun in 833 AD in which religious scholars were punished, imprisoned, or even killed [citation needed] unless they conformed to Muʿtazila doctrine.