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Qisas
"eye for an eye", or retributive justice, in traditional Islamic law / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a sub-article of Islamic criminal jurisprudence.
For other uses, see Qisas (disambiguation).
Qisas or Qiṣāṣ (Arabic: قِصَاص, romanized: Qiṣāṣ, lit. 'accountability, following up after, pursuing or prosecuting') is an Islamic term interpreted to mean "retaliation in kind",[1][2] "eye for an eye", or retributive justice.
Qisas and diyya are two of several forms of punishment in classical/traditional Islamic criminal jurisprudence, the others being Hudud and Ta'zir.[3]
The legal systems of Afghanistan,[4] Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and the northern states of Nigeria currently apply qisas.