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Hudud is an
Arabic word
meaning "borders, boundaries, limits". The word in
applied in
classical Islamic literature to
punishments (ranging from public...
- The
Hudud Ordinances (sometimes
spelled as
Hudood Ordinances) are laws in ****stan
enacted in 1979 as part of the
Islamization of ****stan by Muhammad...
- The
Ḥudūd al-ʿĀlam (Arabic: حدود العالم, lit. "Boundaries of the World," "Limits of the World," or in also in
English "The
Regions of the World") is a...
- The
Northern Borders Province (Arabic: منطقة الحدود الشمالية Al-
Ḥudūd Aš-Šamāliyya) is the
least po****ted
province of
Saudi Arabia. It is
located in...
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divides crimes into
three different categories depending on the
offense –
Hudud (crimes "against God",
whose punishment is
fixed in the
Quran and the Hadiths)...
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calls by
Islamist movements for full
implementation of Sharia,
including hudud capital punishments, such as stoning,
which in some
cases resulted in traditionalist...
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presenting the
required eyewitnesses is
called qadhf (القذف),
which is
itself a
hudud offense.
There are very few
recorded examples of the
stoning penalty for...
- Wali (ولي) a
right to, if the
court approves, take the life of the killer.
Hudud crimes,
which are
crimes against God, and are
considered the most serious...
- models. In
recent decades several states have
inserted stoning and
other hudud (pl. of hadd)
punishments into
their penal codes under the
influence of...
- (tazir),
following the
classical principle of
avoiding Sharia-prescribed (
hudud)
penalties when possible. In
response to a 1970s rise in
violent crime,...
