Syed Atif Rizwan

Stoning as Punishment in Early Islam explores some of the contingencies that contributed to the process by which death by lapidation (rajm)—stoning—became a standard punishment for illicit sexual intercourse (zina) for certain schools in the Islamic legal tradition. Syed Atif Rizwan examines stoning through a critical analysis of the transmission history and textual content of key hadith, as well as...