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Lange, Christian Robert.

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Executing justice in Sunni Islam: Historical, poetical, eschatological and legal dimensions of punishment under the Saljuqs (1055--1194 CE).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Executing justice in Sunni Islam: Historical, poetical, eschatological and legal dimensions of punishment under the Saljuqs (1055--1194 CE)./
Author:	Lange, Christian Robert.
Description:	397 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-05, Section: A, page: 1773.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-05A.
Subject:	Literature, Middle Eastern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3217798
ISBN:	9780542693151

Executing justice in Sunni Islam: Historical, poetical, eschatological and legal dimensions of punishment under the Saljuqs (1055--1194 CE).
Lange, Christian Robert.

Executing justice in Sunni Islam: Historical, poetical, eschatological and legal dimensions of punishment under the Saljuqs (1055--1194 CE). - 397 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-05, Section: A, page: 1773.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2006.

This dissertation is a study of the theory and practice of punishment in medieval Islam in the context of Saljuq society in Iraq and Persia during the 5th/11th and 6th/12 th centuries. Punishment, which for the purpose of this study is defined as the use of legitimate force in order to inflict a penalty in retribution for an offence, is arguably a key factor in the organization of society. By studying the ways in which Saljuq society punished and disciplined its members this dissertation wants to contribute to our understanding of the very fabric of medieval Islamic culture and society. The multi-genre approach adopted in this study results in a synchronic, rather than a diachronic, analysis. Three perspectives on punishment are considered: Part one examines Saljuq chronicles, courtly advice literature, and poetry, written in both Arabic and Persian; part two offers an interpretation of 'popular' eschatological traditions about hell and the punishments suffered therein; part three reconstructs the jurists' discourse on punishment.

ISBN: 9780542693151Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018103
Literature, Middle Eastern.

Executing justice in Sunni Islam: Historical, poetical, eschatological and legal dimensions of punishment under the Saljuqs (1055--1194 CE).
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520 $a Public punishment served the Saljuq ruling class as a political tactic to demonstrate and reinforce their claims to power and to just government. However, the ideology of siyasa propagated by courtly panegyrics, mirrors for princes and the public spectacle of punishment failed to achieve hegemony over the minds of people. Eschatological traditions show a close conceptual contiguity between punishment in this world and in hell. As this study argues, the eschatological idiom offered the possibility to come to grips with the existential discomfort that state punishment occasioned, and to find creative responses to a living situation often marked by unbearable insecurity. The jurists, especially those of the H&dotbelow;anafi school, argued against analogical and linguistic extensions of h&dotbelow;add norms in order to reduce the scope of criminal law. In the field of discretionary punishment (ta`zir), they put forth the claim that only offences committed in public were punishable. The basic argument of this dissertation is that both eschatologists and jurists skillfully managed to mobilize Islamic cultural resources to formulate conceptions of justice that could compete with the kind of justice administered by the ruling classes. Thus they carved out a space for individual liberty under a highly militarized and unstable political regime.
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