Islamic Criminal Jurisprudence

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Islamic criminal law (فقه العقوبات) is criminal law in accordance with Islamic law. Strictly speaking, Islamic law does not have a distinct corpus of criminal law, as sharia courts do not have prosecutors, and all matters, even criminal ones, are in principle handled as disputes between individuals. Instead of a separate corpus of criminal law, Islamic law maintains a special category of offenses against god, or hudud, whose punishments are fixed.