Islamic Criminal Law in Northern Nigeria. Politics, Religion, Judicial Practice

In 2000 and 2001, 12 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.＂ Based on a sample of trials, the present thesis discusses the introduction of Islamic criminal law and the evolution of judicial practice.

Gunnar Weimann ============== Gunnar J. Weimann studied translation for Arabic and French at Leipzig University (Germany) and worked in Nigeria from 2002 to 2004 as a diplomat