Prison and Prisoners in Islam

Abstract

This articles deals with the issue of prisons in Islam from the beginning of Islam till the Abbasid period. It also deals with the most famous Islamic prisons, the life of the prisoners, and their treatment by their jailors. The article reveals the sanitary conditions of the prisons, and the various ways of torturing the prisoners by the Abbasid Caliphs, who devised different ways to torture their prisoners. The article also makes a comparison between the treatment of the prisoners of war during the days of Muhammad and the treatment of Moslem prisoners. It shows that non-Moslem prisoners of war were treated in a better way than Moslem prisoners.