Islamic criminal law in Northern Nigeria : politics, religion, judicial practice / / Gunnar Jochen Weimann.

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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:204 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • ch. 1. Judicial practice in Islamic criminal law in Nigeria : a tentative overview
  • ch. 2. Divine law and local custom in Northern Nigeria Zina trials
  • ch. 3. Islamic law and Muslim governance in Northern Nigeria : crimes against life, limb and property in sharia judicial practice
  • ch. 4. An alternative vision of sharia application in Northern Nigeria : Ibrahim Salih's Hadd offences in the sharia
  • ch. 5. The Fatwa and the beast : Islamic authority and Muslim unity in northern Nigeria in light of the 2002 Miss World Crisis.