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Strictly speaking, Islamic law does not have a distinct corpus of "criminal law". 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 classical Islamic legal tradition did not have a separate category for criminal law as does modern law. [4] The classical Islamic jurisprudence typically divided the subject matter of law into four "quarters", that is rituals, sales, marriage, and injuries. [2] In modern usage, Islamic criminal law has been extracted and collated from that ...
The Tanzimat reforms of the 19th century saw reorganization of both Islamic civil law and sultanic criminal law after the model of the Napoleonic Code. [57] In the 1870s, a codification of civil law and procedure (excepting marriage and divorce), called the Mecelle, was produced for use in both Sharia and secular courts. It adopted the Turkish ...
Diya (Arabic: دية; pl.: diyāt, Arabic: ديات) in Islamic law, is the financial compensation paid to the victim or heirs of a victim in the cases of murder, bodily harm or property damage by mistake.
Murder, injury and property damage are not hudud crimes in Islamic criminal jurisprudence, [43] [44] and are subsumed under other categories of Islamic penal law in Iran which are: Qisas (meaning retaliation, and following the principle of " eye for an eye "), and diyah ("blood money", financial compensation paid to the victim or heirs of a ...
Malaysia has a dual-track legal system with Islamic criminal and family laws applicable to Muslims running alongside secular laws. ... "There is a need to rewind and reconsider the existing states ...
Qisas or Qiṣāṣ (Arabic: قِصَاص, romanized: Qiṣāṣ, lit. 'accountability, following up after, pursuing or prosecuting') is an Islamic term interpreted to mean "retaliation in kind", [1] [2] "eye for an eye", or retributive justice.
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