Hisbah and sharia law enforcement in metropolitan kano

Africa Today

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 72-96

  Olaniyi, Rasheed Oyewole ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; ISLAMISM; LAW ENFORCEMENT; METROPOLITAN AREA;

KANO [NIGERIA]; NIGERIA;

EID: 80051614304     PISSN: 00019887     EISSN: 15271978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2979/africatoday.57.4.71     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. African Freedom Press. 2005. Sharia Police, Motorcyclists Clash in Nigeria over Ban on Women. 15 December.
2. Ahmad, K. 1983. Introduction and Editor's Preface: Al-Shaykh allmam Ibn Taymiya. Public Duties in Islam: The Institution of the Hisbah. London: The Islamic Foundation.
3. Anderson, J. N. D. 1957. Law and Custom in Muslim Areas in Africa: Recent Development in Nigeria. Brussels: Institut International des Civilizations Différentes.
4. Anyanwu, Ogechi E. 2005-2006. Crime and Justice in Postcolonial Nigeria: The Justifications and Challenges of Islamic Law of Shariah. Journal of Law and Religion 21(2):315-347.
5. Baker, B. 2004. Protection from Crime: What is on Offer for Africans? Journal of Contemporary African Studies 2 (22):165-188.
6. Balewa, B. A. T. 2002. Common Law and Sharia in Nigeria: An Unresolved Problem of Coexistence. Enugu: Fourth Dimension Publishers Company Limited.
7. Callaway, Barbara. J. 1987. Women and Political Participation in Kano City. Comparative Politics 19(4):379-393.
8. Clarke, Peter. 1982. West Africa and Islam: A Study of Religious Development from the 8th to the 20th century. London: Edward Arnold.
9. Clarke, Peter. 1988. Islamic Reform in Contemporary Nigeria: Methods and Aims. Third World Quarterly 10(2):519-538.
10. Council of Ulama of Nigeria. 1999. Zamfara Islamic State: A Welcome Development. Paid advertisement. The Guardian, 7 December, p. 58. Signed by Ambassador M. L. Rafindadi, General Secretary.
11. Elaigwu, J. I., and H. Galadima. 2003. The Shadow of Sharia over Nigerian Federalism. Publius 33(3): 123-144.
12. Ellis, Stephen, and Gerrie ter Haar. 1998. Religion and Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Journal of Modern African Studies 36(2):175-201.
13. Fuller, Graham. 1999. Is Islamism a Threat? A Debate. Middle East Quarterly 6(4):29-41.
14. Gwarzo, Tahir H. 2003. Activities of Islamic Civic Associations in the Northwest of Nigeria: With Particular Reference to Kano State. Africa Spectrum 38(3):289-318.
15. Harvard Law Review. 2004. Saving Amina Lawal: Human Rights Symbolism and the Dangers of Colonialism. Harvard Law Review 117(7):2365-2386.
16. Haynes, Jeff. 1995. Popular Religion and Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa. Third World Quarterly 16(1): 89-108.
17. Hisbah Board. 2007. Report of Kano State Hisbah Board, 7th November, 2003[,] to 30th November, 2006[,] Presented at the Consolidation Retreat Organised for the Top Government Functionaries by the Office of the Head of Civil Service, Kano State, February.
18. Hunwick, J. 1992. An African Case Study of Political Islam: Nigeria. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 524:143-155.
19. Iwobi, Andrew U. 2004. Tiptoeing Through a Constitutional Minefield: The Great Sharia Controversy in Nigeria. Journal of African Law 48(2):111-164.
20. Kane, Ousmane. 2008. Islamism: What is New, What is Not? Lessons from West Africa. African Journal of International Affairs 11(2):157-187.
21. Killingray, David. 1986. The Maintenance of Law and Order in British Colonial Africa. African Affairs 85(340):411-437.
22. Kukah, Matthew H. 1993. Religion, Politics and Power in Northern Nigeria. Ibadan: Spectrum Books.
23. Ladan, Muhammed Tawfiq. 2004. Legal Pluralism and the Development of the Rule of Law in Nigeria: Issues and Challenges in the Development and Application of the Sharia. In Sharia Penal and Family Laws in Nigeria and in the Muslim World: Rights Based Approach, edited by J. Ibrahim. Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University Press Limited.
24. Last, Murray. 2002. Notes on the Implementation of Sharia in Northern Nigeria. FAIS Journal of Humanities 2(2):1-17.
25. Lubeck, Paul M. 1987. Islam and Urban Labour in Northern Nigeria: The Making of a Muslim Working Class. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
26. Mahmud, Sakah S. 2004. ASR Focus: Islamism in West Africa, Nigeria. African Studies Review 47(2):83-95.
27. Marenin O. 1985. Policing Nigeria: Control and Autonomy in the Exercise of Coercion. African Studies Review 28(1):73-93.
28. Mayer, E. A. 1993. A Critique of An-Naim's Assessment of Islamic Criminal Justice. In Islamic Law Reform and Human Rights: Challenges and Rejoinders, edited by T. Lindholm and K. Vogt. Copenhagen: Nordic Human Rights.
29. Mazrui, Ali. 1985. Religion and Political Culture in Africa. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 33(4):817-839.
30. Mission and Achievements of Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau's Administration in Kano State, May 29th 2003- May 29th, 2004. Kano: Kano State Government.
31. Native Authority Police Force Rules, Native Authority Law. 1954 (No. 4 of 1954). Kaduna: Government Printers.
32. Nmehielle, Vincent O. 2004. Sharia Law in the Northern States of Nigeria: To Implement or Not to Implement the Constitutionality is the Question. Human Rights Quarterly 26(3):730-759.
33. Oba, Abdulmumini A. 2004. The Sharia Court of Appeal in Northern Nigeria: The Continuing Crises of Jurisdiction. The American Journal of Comparative Law 52(4):859-900.
34. Odekunle, F. 1979. The Nigeria Police Force: An Assessment of Functional Performance. International Journal of the Sociology of Law 7(1):61-83.
35. Olaniyi, Rasheed O. 2005. Community Vigilantes in Metropolitan Kano. Ibadan: IFRA.
36. Orimolade, Akin. 2006. "A Friend or Foe?" Tell 27:36-38.
37. Ostien, Philip, ed. 2007. Sharia Implementation in Northern Nigeria, 1999-2006: A Sourcebook. 5 vols. Ibadan: Spectrum Books Limited.
38. Paden, John N. 1981. Islamic Political Culture and Constitutional Change in Nigeria. A Journal of Opinion 11(1/2):24-28.
39. Peters, R. 2003. Islamic Criminal Law in Nigeria. Ibadan: Spectrum Books Limited.
40. Peters, R, and M. Barends, 2001. The Reintroduction of Islamic Criminal Law in Northern Nigeria: A Study Conducted on Behalf of the European Commission. http://europa.eu.int/comm./europeaid/projects/eidhr/pdf/Islamic-criminal-law-nigeria_en.pdf.
41. Report of Kano State Hisbah Board, 7 November 2003 to 30 November 2006.
42. Rosenbaum, H.J. and Sederberg, P.C. 1974.Vigilantism: An Analysis of Establishment Violence. Comparative Politics 6(4): 541-556.