APOSTASY IN ISLAM: PUBLIC OR PRIVATE? CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY DISCUSSIONS OF MUSLIM SCHOLARS AND THEIR RELEVANCE FOR MUSLIMS IN THE WEST

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Abstract

In the first centuries of Islam, the Islamic legal scholars elaba complex set of rules pertaining to the legal status of those Mwho gave up their religion, the apostates. These rules belongsphere of penal as well as civil law.' This doctrine remaineuntil, in the latter half of the 19th century, punishment for afell into desuetude, though it was almost nowhere expressly abAt the same time the principle of freedom of religion was gaground in the Moslem
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Studies in Religion and Society
PublisherBrill Academic Publishers
Pages83-114
Number of pages32
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013

Publication series

NameInternational Studies in Religion and Society
Volume20
ISSN (Print)1573-4293

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