...The issue of public violence and its function is integral in defining the rules which govern politics and which describe a political regime because it is linked to tyranny and the definition of the common good. In contrast to the essentialist concepts which would lead to seeing the Muslim world...

... travellers examined in this chapter are no exception to this rule. Many of their descriptions and views on Morocco and the Moroccan ways of life are heavily influenced by the circumstances of their time and by their personal attitudes. Their descriptions of public violence were derived from a frame of mind...

... intrusions. This volume hence aims to discuss the political uses of public violence and punishments in the Muslim society. The chapters focus the state violence in Islamic societies and the reactions to the state violence. Three themes are laid out in order to fruitfully purse the study of public violence...

... whether these rules comprise a conception of legitimate public violence which can be distinguished from those present within the Sunni juristic tradition. fiqh ḥudūd punishments theology kalām and theologians Abū ḥanīfa deterrence zajr theories of justice ritual Kitāb al Umm Abū Yūsuf amputation...