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:
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.
Download or read book A Handbook on Sharia Implementation in Northern Nigeria written by Muhammed Tawfiq Ladan and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Political Sharia Numan Rights And Islamic Law In Northern Nigeria written by and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 2004 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Shari a 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
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.
Download or read book Nigeria Political Shari a written by Carina Tertsakian and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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:
Download or read book Political Shari a written by Carina Tertsakian and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Sharia Women s Human Rights in Nigeria written by Joy Ezeilo and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law written by Markus D Dubber and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 1294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law reflects the continued transformation of criminal law into a global discipline, providing scholars with a comprehensive international resource, a common point of entry into cutting edge contemporary research and a snapshot of the state and scope of the field. To this end, the Handbook takes a broad approach to its subject matter, disciplinarily, geographically, and systematically. Its contributors include current and future research leaders representing a variety of legal systems, methodologies, areas of expertise, and research agendas. The Handbook is divided into four parts: Approaches & Methods (I), Systems & Methods (II), Aspects & Issues (III), and Contexts & Comparisons (IV). Part I includes essays exploring various methodological approaches to criminal law (such as criminology, feminist studies, and history). Part II provides an overview of systems or models of criminal law, laying the foundation for further inquiry into specific conceptions of criminal law as well as for comparative analysis (such as Islamic, Marxist, and military law). Part III covers the three aspects of the penal process: the definition of norms and principles of liability (substantive criminal law), along with a less detailed treatment of the imposition of norms (criminal procedure) and the infliction of sanctions (prison law). Contributors consider the basic topics traditionally addressed in scholarship on the general and special parts of the substantive criminal law (such as jurisdiction, mens rea, justifications, and excuses). Part IV places criminal law in context, both domestically and transnationally, by exploring the contrasts between criminal law and other species of law and state power and by investigating criminal law's place in the projects of comparative law, transnational, and international law.
Download or read book Zina in the Criminal Legislation Act 1999 2000 written by Paul Orerhime Akpomie and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The research engages in an exploration of human rights in Islam. Human rights issues are then contrasted with international law positions. The data gotten is then used for investigating women's human rights issues in ShariÊla penal tradition regardingzinaÌ (adultery) in Nigeria. The re-emergence of Sharia penal codes adopted by 12 Northern states in Nigeria in 1999 as an operative Islamic law has sparked concerns about rulings amounting to stoning to death in several cases of zinaÌ. These events raised concerns about ShariÊla penal traditions' legality and relationship with other legal traditions operational in Nigeria, a secular political space. (Chapter I) Another element presented is the discrepancy between the theoretical viewpoint on women's human rights. How is this perspective applied to Muslim women's jurisdictions? The research uses the example of ShariÊla court cases with regard tozinaÌ in Nigeria to illustrate the branching between theory and practice of ShariÊla penal laws. Our essay shall consider ShariÊla court proceedings and rulings of Safiyatu Hussaini and Amina Lawal cases ofzinaÌ4 for our research.[1] We shall focus on some of the infringed women's rights violations articulated in the primary court sources and other secondary sources. (Chapter II) Chapter III is dedicated to evaluating the development of the court cases and ruling from thezinaÌ, as mentioned earlier in chapter II. The analysis provides an insight into areas of human rights violations, especially against women. It demonstrates that where women and men had been prosecuted forzinaÌ, mostly women, have been charged and convicted of the crime. Therefore, illustrating the gender biases exhibited in the court convictions and procedural neglects against the women charged. However, the paper's research will also proffer that women's rights in ShariÊla are not completely at odds with principles of international human rights standards of the United Nations. The argument's postulation stems from asserting that the Islamic penal tradition is not inflexible. Based on its primary sources the ShariÊla lends itself to various explications in jurisprudence (fiqh) to help circumvent issues bordering on abuse of women's rights in Islam. The jurisprudence of the Maliki ShariÊla Courts of Appeal inzinaÌ cases will help illustrate this fact. (Chapter III) The research concludes by addressing the possibility of discerning the reconciliation between international rights standards and Islamic women's rights concerns. This thesis acknowledges that there are aspects of women's violations present inzinaÌ-related cases and establishes that there is room for reforms. However, in a pioneering manner, the essay considers a more exhaustive review of the zinaÌ cases above to argue against the notion that it is impossible to attain any form of human rights or justice in ShariÊla courts for women. In order words, it challenges the proposition that ShariÊla penal laws are incompatible with international human rights. This research attempts to refute the position that ShariÊla penal codes are not dynamic. The ShariÊla Appeal Courts in Nigeria are saddled with the responsibility of safeguarding ShariÊla against a reductionist approach to a holistic form that is multi-valued and teleological rather than causal. Such a consideration bridges ShariÊla with regards to women's rights issues inzinaÌ cases with the spirit of international set norms for all human rights. (Chapter IV) This thesis proposes that the ShariÊla Courts of Appeal ruling could be set as a benchmark forum for further evaluative projects of the ShariÊla criminal and penal codes procedures. Adhering to such reforms will be following the legacy of the ShariÊla committee of 1958-1962 set at bridging ShariÊla law in the penal code of 1960 with human rights concerns. The 1999 ShariÊla committee failed to meet this salient mark as discussed in chapter I. The paper ends on a note of suggestions for some considerations for ShariÊla criminal and penal reforms at ordering and safeguarding women's rights in Nigeria.[2] [1] In 2002, Safiya Hussaini was sentenced to death byrajm under the new ShariÊla criminal codes in Sokoto. Amina Lawal was sentenced to be stoned to death forzinaÌ in 2002. These two cases gained international recognition. [2] Before 1960 (Nigeria's independence), ShariÊla law was fully applied in the Sokoto caliphate, northern Nigeria. It was affected by colonial rule.ShariÊla penal codes were revoked at the dawn of Nigeria's independence in 1960. From then on, Islamic sharia law was limited to the law of family relations and personal rank. The settlement in 1960 brought these changes: The Northern courts in which herqadis (judges) administered Islamic law witnessed changes in the court systems and their judges become more Western-trained and less traditionally Muslim. In response to this trend, the program of "implementation of ShariÊla" started in 1999 in 12 Northern states. It was an attempt at restoring thestatus quo ante of ShariÊla before 1960.
Download or read book Sharia Implementation in Northern Nigeria 1999 2006 Historical background written by Philip Ostien and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to the complete text of the work as published by Spectrum, this Internet edition includes additional documentary materials too voluminous for inclusion in the printed text. For complete details see the tables of contents to the individual volumes.
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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.
