Arabic-L:LIT:New JAIS article

[Dilworth Parkinson]

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Arabic-L: Wed 04 Jun 2003
Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu>
[To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu]
[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to
listserv at byu.edu with first line reading:
           unsubscribe arabic-l                                      ]

-------------------------Directory-------------------------------------

1) Subject:New JAIS article

-------------------------Messages--------------------------------------
1)
Date: 04 Jun 2003
From: "Joseph N. Bell" <joseph.bell at msk.uib.no>
Subject:New JAIS article

Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
<http://www.uib.no/jais>
<http://enlil.ff.cuni.cz/jais/jais.htm>

 From Joseph Bell

The prepublication version of the following new article has been posted
today:

Seyed Hossein Serajzadeh. "Islam and Crime: The Moral Community of
Muslims" (Adobe Acrobat 5.0 PDF file, 199 kB, pp. 111-131). HTML
version to be posted later.

Abstract: International crime statistics indicate that in Islamic
countries crime rates are lower than in other countries. This feature
of Islamic countries is most often explained by two factors: a) the
relatively low level of development, which has a positive effect on
crime rates, and b) the strictness of Islamic penal law. Providing some
evidence, this article maintains that the first factor fails to explain
properly the difference in the crime rates of Islamic and non-Islamic
countries at a similar level of development. It also argues that the
second explanation is a reductionist one. Following a Weberian
approach, the article develops the argument that the content and
structure of Islamic belief and practice is the dominant shared element
among Islamic countries. It has given rise to a particular
socio-cultural structure among Muslims, one of the impacts of which has
been the low crime rate. Islamic beliefs and practice, therefore, are
discussed as the main explanatory factor for the low crime rate in
Islamic countries. (Keywords: Religion, Crime, Development, Islam,
Shari'a, Islamic law, Muslim attitudes.)

------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
End of Arabic-L:  04 Jun 2003