“It is Permitted for the Amīr but not the Qāḍī”: The Military-Administrative Genealogy of Coercion in Abbasid Criminal Justice

Muslim rulers and law enforcers used coercion as an evidentiary method for criminal cases during the Abbasid period. These coercive procedures consisted of imprisonment, threats of beatings, and lashings. Coercive interrogations were shaped by the practices of the shurṭa (criminal magistrates and po...

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Main Author: Allehbi, Mohammed (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2023
In: Islamic law and society
Year: 2023, Volume: 30, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 65-95
Further subjects:B Confession
B siyāsa
B al-Māwardī
B shurṭa
B Buyid
B Abbasid
B Coercion
B Criminal Justice
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