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The study defines Hudood, Qasas and Taazeer crimes and discusses each within the framework of Shari' ah Law. The Islamic concept of punishment differs from the Western, in that it relates to faith and conscience, in its interaction with the belief of punishment in the life hereafter, the heavenly reward for abstention from wrongdoing and because punitive measures include repentance.
The study emphasizes the applicability of the Islamic Sharia as a preferable alternative to existing laws in some Muslim societies, and is a humble contribution to the efforts being made for the worldwide reduction of crime.
Using as its framework the development of modern Western thought on revelation, it raises questions related to religious epistemology and finds that the Muslims studied offer three interpretations of revelation: (1) part mystico-subjective and part natural intuitive, (2) part traditional and part mystico-subjective, and (3) traditional.
This thesis presents a broad study of the social, cultural, and institutional history of higher Islamic religious education in Cairo during the Manila period (12504517).
Also, in these chapters, are discussions of two Indo-Muslim cultural patterns which relate food sharing to the basic values of social honor and religious piety.
The final chapter, which is based on Arabic and minor Latin sources, offers a more general discussion of cultural boundaries between Christians and Muslims (language, dress, religious practices), and focuses particularly on how these boundaries affected Christians who held positions in the Islamic government.
Comparative content analysis was applied in this study to analyze ABC Television news and The New York Times coverage of Islam and Muslims from 1979 to 1987.