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[2] [14] In the 623-year history of the Ottoman Empire, the best-documented and most well-known pre-modern Islamic legal system, there is only one recorded example of the stoning punishment being applied for zina, when a Muslim woman and her Jewish lover were convicted of zina in 1680 and sentenced to death, the woman by stoning and the man by ...
A cariye or imperial concubine.. The Imperial Harem (Ottoman Turkish: حرم همايون, romanized: Harem-i Hümâyûn) of the Ottoman Empire was the Ottoman sultan's harem – composed of the wives, servants (both female slaves and eunuchs), female relatives and the sultan's concubines – occupying a secluded portion (seraglio) of the Ottoman imperial household. [1]
t. e. Rajm (Arabic: رجم; meaning stoning) [1][2] in Islam refers to the Hudud punishment wherein an organized group throws stones at a convicted individual until that person dies. Under some versions of Islamic law (Sharia), it is the prescribed punishment in cases of adultery committed by a married person which requires either a confession ...
e. Adultery is extramarital sex that is considered objectionable on social, religious, moral, or legal grounds. Although the sexual activities that constitute adultery vary, as well as the social, religious, and legal consequences, the concept exists in many cultures and shares some similarities in Christianity, Judaism and Islam. [ 1 ]
The punishment of zina in Islam according to Quran is only lashing for the unmarried; scholars allowed stoning only for married according to hadith. [49] For this punishment to be applied, there must be four people who witnessed this incident in order to report it. [50]
e. Hudud[ a ] (Arabic: حدود) is an Arabic word meaning "borders, boundaries, limits". [ 1 ] In the religion of Islam, it refers to punishments that under Islamic law (sharīʿah) are believed to be mandated and fixed by God, i.e. prescribed punishments, as opposed to Ta'zeer (Arabic: تعزير, lit. 'penalty').
The intimate parts (Arabic: عورة'awrah, ستر, satr) of the human body must, according to Islam, be covered by clothing. Most of modern Islamic scholars agree that the 'awrah of a man is the area between the navel and the knees, and the 'awrah of a woman is the entire body except the face, hand; exposing the 'awrah of the body is against ...
Islamic views on concubinage. In classical Islamic law, a concubine was an unmarried slave-woman with whom her master engaged in sexual relations. [ 1 ] Concubinage was widely accepted by Muslim scholars in pre-modern times. Most [ 2 ] modern Muslims, both scholars and laypersons, [ 3 ] believe that Islam no longer permits concubinage and that ...