1.Islamic criminal law
Islamic criminal law (uqubat) is founded on the Qur’anic-Sunnah principles, as is the case with other legal areas of Islamic jurisprudence. However, the Qur’an did not go into a more detailed explanation of individual legal norms, but only gave general principles that the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) explained and showed the way of their application, and often he himself adopted norms, which had a binding character for Muslims.…
The term uqubat encompasses two types of acts: crimes and misdemeanors. One of the ways to distinguish between the two is to establish the fact who does the law give legal aid in a certain case: society or an individual. In the first case, there is a crime, and in the second, a misdemeanor.…
The basis of Islamic criminal law, on which individual rights and freedoms are built,…
Hadd crimes are crimes for which fixed, binding punishments are prescribed based on the Qur’an and Sunnah.
Ta’zir has a very important function, which is reflected in the sentencing of those who have committed some of the crimes that we classify in the category of hadd crimes, but due to procedural reasons, an appropriate sentence cannot be imposed for them or to punish those who have
The range of punishments that can be imposed as a ta’zir is almost unlimited, ranging…
The word Qisas means equality or equivalence, and in Islamic criminal law it implies that a person who has harmed another person will be punished in the same way. There are five qisas crimes: murder, premeditated murder, manslaughter, intentional bodily harm or strangulation, and negligent bodily harm or strangulation.…
Criminal acts against religion include blasphemy of God, religious dogmas, cursing…
Crimes against life and limb are murder and wounding, and the principle of talion,…
The punishments prescribed in the Qur’an for the commission of blood offenses are…
Crimes against private and social property are robbery and theft. Robbery (hirabah)…
The minimum condition for the existence of this offense is the threat of a weapon…
In the case of the criminal offense of theft (serika), the punishment is the amputation of the hand. However, all legal schools prescribe a certain value that the stolen thing must have in order to carry out this sanction. That value is a quarter of a gold coin or three pieces of silver.…
Crimes against marriage, honor and public morals include illicit sexual intercourse,…
If someone accuses another of fornication (qazf), and does not support his…
A homosexual relationship is equal to an illegal heterosexual relationship according…
As a counterbalance to the severe punishments that are intended for fornicators,…
Drinking alcohol (shurb al-khamr) is a crime against sobriety, and it is strictly…
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