1st Edition
Islamic Criminal Law in Northern Nigeria Politics, Religion, Judicial Practice
By Gunnar Weimann
Copyright 2011
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
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In 2000 and 2001, twelve northern states of the Federal Republic of Nigeria introduced Islamic criminal law as one of a number of measures aiming at “reintroducing the shari‘a.” Immediately after its adoption, defendants were sentenced to death by stoning or to amputation of the hand. Apart from a few well publicised trials, however, the number and nature of cases tried under Islamic criminal law... Read more
Acknowledgments, Introduction, Ch1. Judicial Practice in Islamic Criminal Law in Nigeria — A Tentative Overview, Ch2. Divine Law and Local Custom in Northern Nigerian Zina Trials, Ch3. Islamic Law and Muslim Governance in Northern Nigeria: crimes against life, limb and property in sharia judicial practice, Ch4. An Alternative Vision of Sharia Application in Northern Nigeria: Ibrahim Salih’s add offences in the sharia, Ch5. The Fatwa and the Beast: Islamic authority and Muslim unity in northern Nigeria in light of the 2002 Miss World Crisis, Conclusion, Appendix: Identified trials under Islamic criminal law, Bibliography, Summary2 Samenvatting.
Biography
Gunnar J. Weimann studied translation for Arabic and French at Leipzig University (Germany) and worked in Nigeria from 2002 to 2004 as a diplomat
