Open AccessForeword to the Symposium on Brunei’s New Islamic Criminal Code
Author(s) -
Intisar A. Rabb
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of islamic law
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2475-7985
pISSN - 2475-7977
DOI - 10.53484/jil.v1.rabb1
Subject(s) - scholarship , islam , sharia , law , criminal code , criminal law , political science , code (set theory) , legislation , sociology , history , computer science , set (abstract data type) , archaeology , programming language
In this inaugural issue of Harvard Law School’s Journal in Islamic Law, we use the new Forum, designed for scholarly debate on recent developments and scholarship in the field, to feature a Symposium on the passage of a new 'Islamic Criminal Code' in Brunei. This new criminal code has generated extensive international media attention but little close analysis. In this Forum, four scholars offer scholarly essays that examine the contours of this new legislation and the extent to which it intersects with antecedents in Islamic history and with precedents in modern criminal law and procedure, comparatively. With a foreword by Intisar A. Rabb, Mansurah Izzul Mohamed, Dominik M. Müller, and Adnan A. Zulfiqar assess the history, workings, and critiques surrounding Brunei’s new code. Accompanying their essays is the SHARIAsource Online Companion to the Forum on Islamic Criminal Law in Brunei, which provides the text of each law, and of its antecedents, at beta.shariasource.com.