ABSTRACT
From our observations as those born and raised in a partially Islamic country, the least-studied system of justice in the Western world is the Islamic system of criminal justice. This is because of the impact of colonization of nations in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by Western imperialists, who condemned the cultures and customary standards of their conquered nations. For Islamic nations prior to their colonization, religion and politics were inseparable; they were intertwined as a complete system. Just like in medieval Europe, when the head of the Christian church was also the head of state,
the head of an Islamic nation was also the head of state. Colonization, in the main, disorganized many Muslim nations’ approaches to their religion and politics.
