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creators_name: UMAR, MUHAMMAD S.
title: GENDER ISSUES IN APPLICATION OF ISLAMIC LAW IN NIGERIA
ispublished: pub
subjects: ag_perb
divisions: jurn_jamiah
full_text_status: public
keywords: Gender Issues, Application of Islamic Law, Maliki School of Thought, Nigeria
abstract: This essay explores gender issues in the contemporary application of Islamic law in the Muslim majority-states of northern Nigeria. Brief political background helps to explain the sharia codes enacted by the legislatures of the states, drawing largely from the classical formulations of Maliki school of Islamic law. Women were among the first to be prosecuted and sentenced to death by stoning for the offence of zina. To provide effective legal defense for the accused women, their lawyers and activists for women human rights had to argue in Islamic law before they could convince Sharia Courts of Appeal to overturn the sentences of death by stoning and set the women free. In the process, women activists learned a lot about the classical formulations of Maliki school of Islamic law, where they discovered the rich flexibility of Islamic thought, and that has empowered them to articulate Islamic criticisms against gender bias in the recently enacted sharia codes.
date: 2009-10-22
date_type: published
publication: Al Jamiah
volume: Vol.45
number: No.1
publisher: UIN Sunan Kalijaga
refereed: TRUE
issn: 2338-557X
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citation:   UMAR, MUHAMMAD S.  (2009) GENDER ISSUES IN APPLICATION OF ISLAMIC LAW IN NIGERIA.  Al Jamiah, Vol.45 (No.1).   ISSN 2338-557X     
document_url: https://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/751/1/GENDER%20ISSUES%20IN%20APPLICATION.pdf