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God’s Wish or Mortal Error? The Iranian State’s Blessing for Vigilantism
By Bahman Khodadadi As Muslim jurist Mohsen Kadivar observes, in traditional fiqh (Islamic law), certain punishments prescribed by sharīʿa can be carried out “by any adult Muslim (mukallaf) based on their own judgment and without recourse to a judge or a court.”[1] One of the key prerequisites for the application of life-for-life retribution (qiṣāṣ al-nafs) is that the victim’s life must be regarded as sacred; in other words, the victim must be …
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