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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 ...
At the national level, there are three systems of law in operation in Indonesia: civil law, commercial law, and criminal law. Outside Aceh, the influence of Islamic law is limited to civil law in the areas of marriage, inheritance, and religious endowments (Indonesian: waqaf), and to commercial law in certain areas of Islamic banking and finance. [10]
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 ...
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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 ...
Hudud [a] is an Arabic word meaning "borders, boundaries, limits". [1] The word in applied in classical Islamic literature to punishments (ranging from public lashing, public stoning to death, amputation of hands, crucifixion, depending on the crime), [2] for a limited number of crimes (murder, adultery, slander theft, etc.), [3] [4] for which punishments have been determined (or traditionally ...
In all cases of murder, unintentional homicide, bodily injury and property damage, under classical/traditional Islamic law, the prosecutor is not the state, but only the victim or the victim's heir (or owner, in the case when the victim is a slave). Qisas can only be demanded by the victim or victim's heirs. [12]
Islamic Law in Practice: The Application of Qisas and Diyat Law in Pakistan, Tahir Wasti, Y.B. Islamic & Middle Eastern Law (2007) The Modern Interpretation of the Diyat Formula for the Quantum of Damages: The Case of Homicide and Personal Injuries, S.Z. Ismail, Arab Law Quarterly, Volume 26, Issue 3, pp. 361–379