Why You Should Poison Your Husband: a Note On Liability in Hanafī Law in the Ottoman Period

Abstract Hanafi legal doctrine contains an implicit analogy (although not one that the jurists themselves make) between ordering an agent to kill and killing someone by poison. In the former case, it is not the principal but the agent who is liable, unless the agent acted under compulsion. Similarly...

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Main Author: Imber, Colin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 1994
In: Islamic law and society
Year: 1994, Volume: 1, Issue: 2, Pages: 206-216
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