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Author Weimann, Gunnar J

Title Islamic criminal law in Northern Nigeria : politics, religion, judicial practice / Gunnar Jochen Weimann
Published Amsterdam : Vossiuspers UvA, an imprint of Amsterdam University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (204 pages)
Series UvA proefschriften
UvA proefschriften
Contents Table of Contents; 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
Summary 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 are little known. Based on a sample of trials, the present thesis discusses the introduction of Islamic criminal law and the evolution of judicial practice within the regions historical, cultural, political and religious context. The introduction of Islamic criminal law was initiated by politicians and supported by Muslim reform groups, but its potential effects were soon mitigated on higher judicial levels and aspects of the law were contained by local administrators
Notes Ph. D. Universiteit van Amsterdam 2010
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200)
Notes Summary in Dutch and English
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Subject Criminal law (Islamic law) -- Nigeria
LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
Criminal law (Islamic law)
Nigeria
Genre/Form Electronic books
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789048514526
9048514525
9056296558
9789056296551
1282985132
9781282985131