Islamic Criminal Law In Northern Nigeria

Author : Gunnar J. Weimann
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9056296558
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islamic Criminal Law in Northern Nigeria written by Gunnar J. Weimann and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. 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. This title can be previewed in Google Books - http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9789056296551.

Author : Rudolph Peters
Publisher : Spectrum Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islamic Criminal Law in Nigeria written by Rudolph Peters and published by Spectrum Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of Sharia criminal law, commissioned by the European Commission, and to provide analysis of the re-islamification of the Northern Nigerian states, based on classical Islamic texts. The study clarifies and explains the circumstances and background to these new codes, paying special attention to the Koraic offences of fornication, theft, robbery and alcohol consumption. It further identifies conflicts between these codes and the human rights principles guaranteed in the Nigerian federal constitution, and in the United Nations conventions on human rights to which Nigeria is a signatory; and surmises the views of the local people about the laws. The author is Professor of Islamic Law at the University of Amsterdam.

Author : Rudolph Peters
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004420622
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shariʿa, Justice and Legal Order written by Rudolph Peters and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shariʿa, Justice and Legal Order: Egyptian and Islamic Law: Selected Essays by Rudolph Peters is about legal practice, both Shariʿa and state law. Its principal themes are legal order and the actual application of law in the Ottoman and more recent periods

Author : Gunnar J. Weimann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781282985131
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islamic Criminal Law in Northern Nigeria: Politics, Religion, Judicial Practice written by Gunnar J. Weimann and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Justin Su-Wan Yang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000450333
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domestic Legal Pluralism and the International Criminal Court written by Justin Su-Wan Yang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the unique historical development of Islamic Shari’a criminal law alongside English common law in northern Nigeria has created a hybridised criminal legal system through a pluralist dynamic of mutual accommodation. It studies how this system may potentially be accommodated by the International Criminal Court. The work examines how this could be accommodated through the current understanding and operation of complementarity, and that it could ultimately prove to be preferable in encouraging the Shari’a courts to exercise criminal justice over the radical insurgents in northern Nigeria. These courts would have the unprecedented ability to combine binding adjudicative judgments together with religious interpretation and guidance, which can directly combat the predominantly unchallenged domain of ideology by extremist actors. It is submitted that these pluralist perspectives are timely and welcome, given the undeniably Western European foundations of modern International Criminal Law. In exploring such potential avenues, our shared understanding of modern international criminal justice is widened to necessarily include other stakeholders beyond its Western founders. It is the aim and hope that such interactions and engagements with non-Western traditions and cultures will lead to a greater shared ownership of the international criminal justice project, which will only strengthen the global fight against impunity. The book will be essential reading for academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the areas of International Criminal Law, Legal Pluralism, Islamic Shari’a Law, Nigeria, and religiously-inspired violence.

Author : Abdulmalik Bappa Mahmud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of Shari'ah in the Defunct Northern Nigeria written by Abdulmalik Bappa Mahmud and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sarah Eltantawi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520293789
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shari'ah on Trial written by Sarah Eltantawi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November of 1999, Nigerians took to the streets demanding the re-implementation of shari'ah law in their country. Two years later, many Nigerians supported the death sentence by stoning of a peasant woman for alleged sexual misconduct. Public outcry in the West was met with assurances to the Western public: stoning is not a part of Islam; stoning happens "only in Africa"; reports of stoning are exaggerated by Western sensationalism. However, none of these statements are true. Shari'ah on Trial goes beyond journalistic headlines and liberal pieties to give a powerful account of how Northern Nigerians reached a point of such desperation that they demanded the return of the strictest possible shari'ah law. Sarah Eltantawi analyzes changing conceptions of Islamic theology and practice as well as Muslim and British interactions dating back to the colonial period to explain the resurgence of shari'ah, with implications for Muslim-majority countries around the world.

Author : Joy Ezeilo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shari'a Implementation in Nigeria written by Joy Ezeilo and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Olaf Köndgen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004472789
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bibliography of Islamic Criminal Law written by Olaf Köndgen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a multitude of sources online and offline, in A Bibliography of Islamic Criminal Law Olaf Köndgen offers the most extensive bibliography on Islamic criminal law ever compiled.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights and Shariah Penal Code in Northern Nigeria written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: