History and prospect of Islamic Criminal Law with respect to the Human Rights

Dissertation

zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades Dr.jur.

Eingereicht am 16. März 2005

vorgelegt von: Mohamed Al Awabdeh

geboren am 01.12.1969 in Karak (Jordanien)

Präsident der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Mlynek

Dekan der Juristischen Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität

Dekan: Prof. Dr. Michael Kloepfer

Gutachter:
1. Prof. Dr. Felix Herzog
2. Prof. Dr. Detlef Krauß

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Religion and State
• 3. Islam and Democracy
• 4. Crime and Punishment
  • 4.1. Defining punishment
  • 4.2. Punitive Theories –Law and Morals
  • 4.3. Criminal Punishment in Islamic Sharia
  • 4.4. Crime in Islamic criminal law
  • 4.5. Crimes mentioned in Koran and the Sunnah
  • 4.6. Categories crime according to Islamic criminal law
  • 4.7. Retaliation (Kisas)
  • 4.8. Hudood or Hadd
  • 4.9. Tazeer
• 5. The emergence of Islam
  • 5.1. Political and geographical situation before Islam
  • 5.2. Arab societies before Islam
  • 5.3. The concept of crime and punishment in pre-Islamic Arabia
  • 5.4. The Seventh Century – Arrival of a new religion
  • 5.5. The emergence of a new religion
  • 5.6. From the Prophet to Islam
  • 5.7. Islam as related to other religions
• 6. A short history of the Islamic Criminal Law
• 7. Sources of Islamic Criminal Law
  • 7.1. Some basic notions concerning its origin
  • 7.2. A brief account of different sources
  • 7.3. The Koran
  • 7.4. Sunna
  • 7.5. Consensus
  • 7.6. Analogy
  • 7.7. Problems implied
• 8. Schools of Islamic Criminal Law
  • 8.1. Hanafiyyah School
  • 8.2. Maliki School
  • 8.3. Shafaiah School
  • 8.4. Hanbali School
• 9. Criminal Procedure under Islamic Sharia
  • 9.1. Generalities
  • 9.2. Basic principles
  • 9.3. The application of Sharia principles in the modern Islamic world
• 10. Clash of Civilisations?
  • 10.1. Human Rights and their global implementation
  • 10.2. Human Rights and Islam
• 11. Examples
  • 11.1. Freedom of Speech
  • 11.2. Freedom of assembly
  • 11.3. Freedom of thought and believe
  • 11.4. The application of Islamic Criminal Law respecting Human Rights
• 12. The prospect of Islamic criminal law
  • 12.1. Fundamentalism and Modernism
  • 12.2. Need to change
  • 12.3. Examples for a successful adaptation
  • 12.4. Problems implied
• 13. Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
• Bibliography
• GLOSSARY OF SOME ISLAMIC LEGAL TERMS.