Murder in Bushehr in 1844

This Article discusses an honour killing in Bushehr in 1844.It seeks to demonstrate that one of the problems of modernizing legal reform is that it is very difficult to reform one aspect of the law without changing the whole. In other words, Following Montesquieu, the whole spirit of the age must change. The article further demonstrates the flexibility of the shari'a both with regard to local custom and to seeking the benefit both of the community and of a particular individual, but illustrates its in compatibility with British law on the subject of evidence.