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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Summary language: Dutch Publication details: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2010.Description: 204 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • KTA3800 .W45 2010eb
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Contents:
ch. 1. Judicial practice in Islamic criminal law in Nigeria : a tentative overview -- ch. 2. Divine law and local custom in Northern Nigeria Zinā trials -- ch. 3. Islamic law and Muslim governance in Northern Nigeria : crimes against life, limb and property in shariʹa judicial practice -- ch. 4. An alternative vision of shariʹa application in Northern Nigeria : Ibrahim Salih's Ḥadd offences in the shariʹa -- ch. 5. The Fatwā and the beast : Islamic authority and Muslim unity in northern Nigeria in light of the 2002 Miss World Crisis.
Dissertation note: Thesis (doctoral)--Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2010.
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Thesis (doctoral)--Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2010.

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ch. 1. Judicial practice in Islamic criminal law in Nigeria : a tentative overview -- ch. 2. Divine law and local custom in Northern Nigeria Zinā trials -- ch. 3. Islamic law and Muslim governance in Northern Nigeria : crimes against life, limb and property in shariʹa judicial practice -- ch. 4. An alternative vision of shariʹa application in Northern Nigeria : Ibrahim Salih's Ḥadd offences in the shariʹa -- ch. 5. The Fatwā and the beast : Islamic authority and Muslim unity in northern Nigeria in light of the 2002 Miss World Crisis.

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