Hina Azam

Sexual Violation in Islamic Law (eBook, ePUB)

Substance, Evidence, and Procedure

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a detailed analysis of Islamic juristic writings on the topic of rape and argues that classical Islamic jurisprudence contained nuanced, substantially divergent doctrines of sexual violation as a punishable crime. The work centers on legal discourses of the first six centuries of Islam, the period during which these discourses reached their classical forms, and chronicles the juristic conflict over whether or not to provide monetary compensation to victims. Along with tracing the emergence and development of this conflict over time, Hina Azam explains evidentiary ramifications of each of the two competing positions, which are examined through debates between the Hanafi and Maliki schools of law. This study examines several critical themes in Islamic law, such as the relationship between sexuality and property, the tension between divine rights and personal rights in sex crimes, and justifications of victim's rights afforded by the two competing doctrines.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316289792
• Artikelnr.: 43169136

Autorenporträt

Hina Azam is an Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. She has published articles in the Journal of Law and Religion, the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, and Comparative Islamic Studies. She has contributed to the edited volumes Feminism, Law, and Religion (2013) and A Jihad for Justice: Honoring the Work and Life of Amina Wadud (2012), as well as to The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Law (forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Sexual violation in the Late Antique Near East; 2. Tracing rape in early Islamic law; 3. Rape as a property crime - the Mäliki
approach; 4. Rape as a moral transgression - the H
anafi
approach; 5. Proving rape in H
anafi
law - substance, evidence, procedure; 6. Proving rape in Mäliki
law - evidence, procedure, penalty; Conclusion.