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After the victory of the islamic revolution of Iran, there have been many efforts to islamise the Iranian legal system, particularly in the areas of criminal law.
The former criminal codes were abolished and the new codes based on the islamic law was passed in detail by the parliment. There have been some amendments to the procedural and
substantive criminal law the last of which were the Islamic
Crminal Act of 1370 (1991) and Ta'zirat Act of 1375 (1996).
Despite numerous attempts to come up with a coherent
criminal legal system, nearly all legislations have been inadequate
as far as the time - space exigencies are concerned. Lack of legislative and executive experience and traditional interpretation
of Islamic texts are largely responsible for these inadequecies. In this article, the author tries to demonstrate how, based on a
particular reading of text, the context of time and space could significantly influence Islamic criminal law both for legislative and practical purposes