ABSTRACT
The concept of ‘Justice of Islam’, as it has re-emerged in the Islamic countries applying Islamic law in their criminal justice systems, such as Iran, Pakistan, Sudan, Saudi-Arabia, Libya, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates and Afghanistan, seems to be a matter of utmost world importance. The examination of the Islamization process and its consequences within Iranian society is arguably a good method of evaluating the achievements of political Islam in challenging the exigencies of criminal justice in the modern society. The Iranian criminal justice system after the Islamic Revolution has witnessed radical changes. The legal history of Iran shows that the Justice had always been located between two powers; The Shah and the Clergyman. The modernization of Iranian criminal Justice began from the early 20th century and astonishingly throughout this period Iran witnessed two revolutionary movements. Reviewing the developments of Iranian criminal justice reveals that the Judiciary has in the last decade done its best to maximize the Islamization project.
