Compared with “al-qatlu anfā li-l-qatl,” why is “ḥayāh” significant?
Musāwāt and Ījāz al-Qaṣr: Proportionate Wording and the Rhetoric of Qiṣāṣ
- It removes all legal content
- It specifies a number of victims
- It requires reconstruction of a conditional answer
- It states the positive objective of life rather than only the prevention of killing