Chapter 11 has been revused ti take account both of the challenge to the chapter regime of collective UN action presented by the Iraq War and of the new or reformulated claims to rights of pre- emptive strike or humanitarian intervention that have resulted from these actions.

The dictionary provides clear definitions and comprehensive explanations of the elements at play - history, geography, religion, demographics, and more.

The dictionary provides clear definitions and comprehensive explanations of the elements at play - history, geography, religion, demographics, and more.

This book is about crimes and their punishments as laid down in Islamic Law. In recent years some Islamist regimes, such as those of Iran, Pakistan, Sudan and the northern states of Nigeria have reintroduced Islamic law in place of Western criminal codes. This was after the abolition of Islamic criminal law in the nineteenth and twentieth centures. Peters gives a detailed accounts of the classical doctrine and traces the enforcement of criminal law from the Ottoman period to the prsent day. The accounts of actual cases which range from theft to banditry, murder, fornication and apostasy shed light on the comlexities of the law, and the sensitivity and perspicacity of the qadis who implemented it.

The main goal of the journal is to provide an intellectual platform for scholars from different countries. The journal supports interdisciplinary studies in the humanities and social sciences. WorldCat (OCLC) - Logos of some of our partners in the WorldCat knowledge base: ProQuest, EBSCO, Elsevier, Springer, Taylor and Francis, McGraw Hill Education, Wiley, Ingram, Cambridge University Press, Gale Cengage Learning, ebrary, Oxford University Press. Публикует статьи по гуманитарным и социально-экономическим наукам, обладающие научной новизной, представляющие собой результаты завершенных исследований, проблемного научно-практического характера, а также результаты диссертаций на соискание ученых степеней доктора и кандидата наук.