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Anyia, Albert. "Muslim Organisation and the Mobilisations for Sharia Law in northern Nigeria: The JNI and The NSCIA." Journal of Asian and African Studies 52, no. 1 (2016): 82–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021909614560246.

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This paper examines the role of Muslim religious organisations in northern Nigeria as religious interest groups in relation to government decision-making, including their role as ‘superior Muslim influence’ in the introduction and dissemination of Sharia law in 12 northern states in Nigeria. Two of the most prominent Muslim organisations in Nigeria, the J’amatu Nasril Islam (JNI) and Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), are examined in this regard to compare and highlight their lobbying strategies in their attempt to justify claims to representing over 80 million Muslims in Ni

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Mahmud, Sakah Saidu. "Nigeria." African Studies Review 47, no. 2 (2004): 83–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0002020600030882.

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Abstract:The recent (2000) reenactment of the Shari'a legal code in twelve states of Northern Nigeria and the other expressions of Islam in public affairs in the region have been preceded by a long history that should also be understood as determined by the social and political conditions of specific stages in the evolution of the Nigerian social formation. This article attempts to explain Islamism in the region through such factors as Islamic identity for many Muslims, the competition over interpretation and representation of Islam, the nature of the Nigerian state and society, Muslim organiz

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Anyanwu, Ogechi. "Enforcing the Shari`ah in Nigeria." American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 26, no. 3 (2009): 24–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajiss.v26i3.382.

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The reemergence of the Shari`ah in northern Nigeria in 2000 is reshaping the Muslims’ criminal justice system in unintended ways. This article accounts for and provides fresh insights on how the fate of Muslim women under the Shari`ah intertwines with the uncertain future of the law in Nigeria. Using Emile Durkheim’s theory of conscience collective as an explanatory framework of analysis, I argue that the well-placed objective of using the Shari` ah to reaffirm or create social solidarity among Muslim Nigerians has been undermined by the unequal, harsher punishments and suppression of human ri

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Anyanwu, Ogechi. "Enforcing the Shari`ah in Nigeria." American Journal of Islam and Society 26, no. 3 (2009): 24–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v26i3.382.

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The reemergence of the Shari`ah in northern Nigeria in 2000 is reshaping the Muslims’ criminal justice system in unintended ways. This article accounts for and provides fresh insights on how the fate of Muslim women under the Shari`ah intertwines with the uncertain future of the law in Nigeria. Using Emile Durkheim’s theory of conscience collective as an explanatory framework of analysis, I argue that the well-placed objective of using the Shari` ah to reaffirm or create social solidarity among Muslim Nigerians has been undermined by the unequal, harsher punishments and suppression of human ri

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Mazrui, Ali M. "Shariacracy and Federal Models in the Era of Globalization." American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 26, no. 3 (2009): 41–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajiss.v26i3.383.

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Nigeria has Africa’s largest concentration of Muslims and the world’s largest concentration of black Muslims. As the twenty first century began to unfold, more Muslim states in the Nigerian federation adopted some version of Islamic law, although the country as a whole is supposed to be secularist. The Shari`ah in northern Nigeria, which became a passionate protest against the political and economic marginalization of northern Muslims, is also sometimes a form of cultural resistance to western education and the wider forces of globalization. One systemic problem posed by shariacracy as a mode

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Mazrui, Ali M. "Shariacracy and Federal Models in the Era of Globalization." American Journal of Islam and Society 26, no. 3 (2009): 41–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v26i3.383.

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Nigeria has Africa’s largest concentration of Muslims and the world’s largest concentration of black Muslims. As the twenty first century began to unfold, more Muslim states in the Nigerian federation adopted some version of Islamic law, although the country as a whole is supposed to be secularist. The Shari`ah in northern Nigeria, which became a passionate protest against the political and economic marginalization of northern Muslims, is also sometimes a form of cultural resistance to western education and the wider forces of globalization. One systemic problem posed by shariacracy as a mode

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Weimann, Gunnar J. "An Alternative Vision of Sharia Application in Northern Nigeria: Ibrahim Salih’s Hadd Offences in the Sharia." Journal of Religion in Africa 40, no. 2 (2010): 192–221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006610x500865.

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AbstractAfter Islamic criminal law was introduced in northern Nigeria in 1999/2000, sentences of amputation and stoning to death were handed down by Sharia courts. Within a short period of time, however, spectacular judgments became rare. Given the importance of religion in northern Nigerian politics, this development must have been supported by influential Muslim scholars. This article analyses an alternative vision of Sharia implementation proposed by influential Tijaniyya Sufi shaykh Ibrahim Salih. He calls for a thorough Islamisation of northern Nigerian society, relegating the enforcement

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Aliyu, Chika Umar. "National Seminar on Muslims and Islamic Scholarship in Twentieth Century Nigeria." American Journal of Islam and Society 12, no. 1 (1995): 137–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v12i1.2401.

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This seminar was organized by the Center for Islamic Studies (CIS),Usmanu Danfodiyo University (UDU), Sokoto, Nigeria. Many importantpersonalities and academics of merit attended. The main theme wasdivided into seven subthemes: Islamic scholarship in modem Nigeria, intellectualcontributions of notable Muslim scholars, Muslim relationswith non-Muslims, Muslim religious groups and national unity, the influenceof foreign Muslims on Muslims in Nigeria, contemporary innovation(bidah) and the challenge of Islam, and Muslims and religiouspractices.Twenty-two papers were presented. During the opening

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Balogun, Adeyemi. "“When Knowledge is there, Other Things Follow”: The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria and the Making of Yoruba Muslim Youths." Islamic Africa 10, no. 1-2 (2019): 127–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/21540993-01001005.

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Among the religiously mixed Yoruba people of southwest Nigeria, the knowledge and values involved with being a Muslim are taught by both Muslim clerics in Qurʾanic schools and modern madrasas and by non-scholarly Muslims in different contexts. While some research has focussed on Yoruba clerics, little is known about the teaching initiatives of other Muslims. An important movement led by ordinary Muslims is the Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (mssn), formed in 1954 to provide guidance to Muslim students in a predominantly non-Muslim educational environment. Since the 1950s, the mssn has eng

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Imam, Ibrahim. "Shariah and Human Rights Perspectives on Interfaith Marriage: Challenges Impeding Its Practice in Nigeria." ICR Journal 7, no. 4 (2016): 492–508. http://dx.doi.org/10.52282/icr.v7i4.231.

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Within the context of Nigeria, this paper investigates those principles of Shariah that regulate marriage, particularly interfaith union. This is with the goal of explicating certain limitations placed by Islam on the ability of Muslim women to marry non-Muslims. In particular, it is considered whether these limitations prejudice the right to freedom of religion guaranteed in the Nigerian Constitution. Ultimately, the paper establishes that marriage in Nigeria is usually solemnised in a manner reflective of the country’s diversity. This investigation is motivated by the recent controversy surr

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