بازبيني داستان شير و گاو در كتاب كليله و دمنه از منظر حقوق كيفري

Reviewing the Story of Lion and Cow in Kelile and Demne from the Perspective of Criminal Law

Literary texts are a set of intellectual and cultural reserves of nations and reflect their thoughts, ideas and hopes which in every era and period are affected by people and their needs. Many problems such as sociology, management, economy, politics, cultural and social aspects and law exist in literature. Thus, in order to know nations one has to be affiliated with their literature. Legal subjects and related concepts and terms are among issues which are specifically prominent in these texts and so far little attention has been paid to them. In this research authors try to examine the chapters of "Lion and Cow" and "investigating Demneʹs work" in terms of criminal law, which alone is one of the principal branches of law, because the phenomena of crime and criminal are highly manifested in these two chapters. Crime and criminal, various punishments and their objectives, and subjects related to penal justice such as testimony, juridical investigations and judgeʹs impressionability are posed in this paper and in each case it is tried to analyze the subjects in comparison to Islamic criminal law. This research indicates that by thinking and going through literary texts one can find the point of similarity between literature and legal discussions. As a result, literature and its valuable content can be used for enriching legal rules and regulations as well as preventing crimes and promoting health of society