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Islamic Sharia
Critical analysis of Sharia law, hudud, qisas, family law, apostasy, blasphemy, and the legal status of women and non-Muslims.
Articles
Magic Is Forbidden in Islamic Sharia and Sorcerers Are to Be Beheaded
Classical Islamic law treats magic as a grave religious crime and, across major juristic traditions, prescribes death for sorcerers. Early Islamic sources record executions ordered or carried out…
Inhumane Rulings on Homosexuals in Islamic Sharia
Islamic Sharia developed severe punishments for male same-sex intercourse, including stoning, beheading, burning alive, crushing under walls, and throwing offenders from high places. Drawing on the Qur’an, hadith,…
Islamic Deception or Taqiyya: Divine Sanction for Deceiving and Misleading Non-Believers
Introduction A well-known statement attributed to the Prophet Muhammad is “War is deception”—in Arabic, الْحَرْبُ خَدْعَةٌ. Classical commentators understood this statement, recorded in Sahih Muslim and Sahih al-Bukhari,…
The Islamic Rule of Humiliating Non-Muslims by Forcing Them to the Road’s Edge
An examination of hadith and classical Islamic jurisprudence prescribing that non-Muslims yield the road to Muslims. Drawing on al-Nawawi, al-Qurtubi, al-Qari and Ibn al-Qayyim, the article traces how…