Shari'ah on trial : Northern Nigeria's Islamic revolution /
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...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press
[2017]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1m3p0h2 |
Table of Contents:
- A revolution for Shar'iah
- Stoning and sovereignty: Hausaland's Islamic modernity
- Origins of the stoning punishment
- Colonialism: then and now
- The trial of Amina lawal
- Gender and the Western reaction to the case.