Adultery in positive laws and in Islam : a comparative study

Abstract

Adultery is a heinous crime. When an individual drifts into voice, his

reason and well are immobilized and he loses his dignity and humanity and

becomes a prisoner for his physical and sexual instincts, therefore, many

individuals from the non believers males and females, rich and poor, young

and old, married and unmarried participated in committing adultery.

Islam one of the most religions to fight this type of crime, even if committed

with the consent of the parties. That is why this work is a comparative

study between the rule of positive laws as Egyptian, Iraqi, Yemeni, Sudanese,

Syrian, Jordanian and Lebanese and the rules of Islamic Sharia in different

ideologies.

The study is divided into two sections. The first section addressed the

question what adultery is? This is dealt with in two sub- sections: The first

sub-sections is allocated to the definition of adultery. The second sub-section

is to indicate the similarities and differences between adultery and other acts

of indecency. The second section deals with the types of adultery in two subsections.

The first sub-section is to study the crime of adultery in conjugation

and the second sub-section deals with study of adultery with Muharrams.

At the end of the study, there are results and recommendation outlined

in the conclusion of the study.