Colonialism and the Transformation of the Substance and Form of Islamic Law in the Northern States of Nigeria

Yadudu, Auwalu H.

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“…Ogunrotifa (2013) and Yadudu (1992) arrive at the geostrategic politics/political marginalization conclusion from a slightly different angle. For them, highly populated areas, especially those fraught with grievances of ethno-religious minority groups and other segments of the society facing ethno-religious and political exclusion, harbor centrifugal pressures that dispose people toward insurgency.…”

Section: The Geostrategic Politics/political Marginalization Perspectivementioning

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“…Yadudu (1992) showed that the polarization of the territories that became Nigeria actually began with the country’s creation and administration as two separate colonies, namely, Northern Nigeria and Southern Nigeria. Some believe that there was unholy romance between the Northerners, especially in the Sokoto Caliphate, and the colonial administrators treated the colony better than the South.…”

Section: Historicizing Nigeria’s North: Early Flirtations With Religimentioning

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Understanding Insurgency in Nigeria: Interrogating Religious Categories of Analysis

Bamidele

2018

Jadavpur Journal of International Relations

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In analyzing the motivations behind the formation of insurgent groups and their activities against the state, academic debates have been sharply divided. On the one hand are scholars who emphasize insurgency as fallout of religious activities, while on the other hand are those who prioritize geostrategic politics or political marginalization as the root cause. Either claim, however, is only valid in part and obscures a holistic understanding of insurgency as a political phenomenon. Using Boko Haram as a case study, this article interrogates literatures on the aforementioned perspectives and highlights the empirical inadequacies in emphasizing one perspective at the expense of the other. This study suggests that only a synergized and balanced consideration of both perspectives can broaden the understanding of the motivations behind the emergence of Boko Haram as one of the world’s deadliest insurgent groups.

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Section: The Geostrategic Politics/political Marginalization Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Historicizing Nigeria’s North: Early Flirtations With Religimentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Insurgency in Nigeria: Interrogating Religious Categories of Analysis

Bamidele

2018

Jadavpur Journal of International Relations

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“…For this view, only Shari'ah is able to ensure certainty and rapidity of punishment. Not only Nigerian Muslim intellectuals emphasized this aspect: "Islamic law is so simple and straightforward that all one 20 Among many others see : Sulaiman 1987;Yadudu 1992;Oba 2004. 21 In the West of the country, despite the fact that a considerable part of the population is Muslim, the colonial power refused to create Shari'ah Courts (Oba 2004, 117).…”

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Religion as law. An Action-Theoretical Approach to Shari’ah

Cappai

2014

Zeitschrift Für Religionswissenschaft

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To approach the Shari'ah from the perspective of action theory, as I intend to do in this essay, corresponds to the task of making it an object of analysis along three main dimensions: beliefs, opportunities and interests. In this essay Shari'ah is considered as a system of beliefs that actors internalize through time, participating in the social practice of a specific community, as an ensemble of formal and informal constraints that limit and enable action, and, at the same time, as a phenomenon to which actors refer in order to fulfill their own interests. As any other religious phenomenon interpreted and enacted by people, Shari'ah embraces all these elements. Only when we distinguish these dimensions of action are we able to appreciate their reciprocal influence, without compromising their autonomy. As our analysis shows, there is no reason to see in Shari'ah a coherent law system because indeterminacy, relativity, inadequacy and embeddedness are integral parts of it. Shari'ah means something different for politicians, administrators, Ulamas and Quadis (but also for women and men, the educated and the illiterate). The reason for this difference is that actors occupying different "positions" in society tend to articulate different interests.Keywords: Shari'ah -interests, beliefs and opportunities as dimensions of action -indeterminacy -relativity -inadequacy -cultural embeddedness -interdependence -autonomy -homogeneity.Religion als Recht. Eine handlungstheoretische Annäherung an Shari'ah.:Zusammenfassung: In diesem Aufsatz verfolgt der Verfasser das Ziel, Shari'ah in einer handlungstheoretischen Perspektive zu betrachten. Dies entspricht der Aufgabe, das Islamische Gesetz entlang der Handlungsdimensionen Überzeugun-gen, Interessen und Opportunitäten zu thematisieren. Shari'ah ist zum einen ein System geteilter Überzeugungen, welche Akteure in der Zeit verinnerlichen, indem sie an den sozialen Praktiken einer bestimmten Gemeinschaft partizipieren; Shari'ah ist zum zweiten ein Ensemble von formalen und informalen Regeln, welche Handeln ermöglichen, diesem aber gleichzeitig auch Schranken setzten; Shari'ah ist zum dritten eine Ressource, auf das Akteure rekurrieren, um eigene ZfR 2014; 22(2): 226-249 Brought to you by | Universität Osnabrück Authenticated Download Date | 5/27/15 11:21 AMSchlüsselwörter: Shari'ah -Interessen, Überzeugungen und Opportunitäten als Handlungsdimensionen -Unbestimmtheit -Relativität -Inadäquanz -kulturelle Einbettung -Interdependenz -Autonomie -Homogenität.

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“…Three legal systems prevailed in colonial northern Nigeria, one based on English common law, another based on native law and custom, and the third one is Islamic law in Muslim areas of northern Nigeria. Of course, the British modified aspects of Islamic law they found unacceptable, notably Shari'a penalties and rules of evidence and procedure (Anderson 1954 ;Yadudu 1991 ;Naniya 2002 ;Umar 2006 ). Except for these modifications, Islamic law was left substantially intact up to the period of self-rule in northern Nigeria in the 1950s when new legal reforms incorporating Islamic law and common law were introduced (Ostien 2007 ).…”

Section: Sokoto Caliphate and Transformation Of Sarauta Into Emiratesmentioning

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Democracy and Prebendalism in Nigeria

Adebanwi¹,

Obadare²

2013

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Colonialism and the Transformation of the Substance and Form of Islamic Law in the Northern States of Nigeria

Cited by 17 publications

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Understanding Insurgency in Nigeria: Interrogating Religious Categories of Analysis

Understanding Insurgency in Nigeria: Interrogating Religious Categories of Analysis

Religion as law. An Action-Theoretical Approach to Shari’ah

Democracy and Prebendalism in Nigeria

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