Retaliation and Its Provisions in Islamic Law: An Analytical Study on the Soran Township

Abstract

     This research aims to demonstrate the position of retaliation from an Islamic perspective, thus, highlighting a Muslim interest in developing appropriate remedies. To analyze retaliation, methodological standards have been followed in the investigation of socio-religious motivations of that practice, including the clergy’s views on retaliation, the traditional reviews on such personal revenge, as well as any other legal provisions, causes, and remedies deemed relevant to retaliation. The paper, thus, takes an analytical descriptive approach to analyze the causes and treatments of revenge in the Kurdish community based on field interviews with religious scholars, judges, jurists, and reformers. The analysis finds that retaliation is as old as the development of civilized communities whether in the Iraqi or the Kurdish community. However, retaliation has not been a big social alert. The paper, accordingly, recommends that certain social and religious steps be taken to save lives and stop blood-shedding, which will help curb hostility among individuals in general and the Kurdish community in particular