Introduction; Part I. The Politics of Punishment: 1. Spheres and institutions of punishment; 2. Types of punishment; Part II. The Eschatology of Punishment: 3. The structure of hell; 4. Hell's creatures and their punishments; Part III. Legal Dimensions of Punishment: 5. Circumscribing hadd in Sunnī law; 6. Discretionary punishment and the public sphere.
A study of the phenomenon of punishment in eleventh-to-thirteenth-century Islamic society.
Christian Lange is Lecturer in Islamic Studies in the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh.
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