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Democratization and Islamic law : the Sharia conflict in Nigeria / Johannes Harnischfeger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harnischfeger, Johannes.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islamic law--Nigeria.
- Islamic law.
- Islam and politics--Nigeria.
- Islam and politics.
- Democracy--Nigeria.
- Democracy.
- Social conflict.
- Religion and state.
- Nigeria.
- Religion and state--Nigeria.
- Social conflict--Nigeria.
- Social conflict--Religious aspects.
- Islam--Relations--Christianity--Nigeria.
- Islam.
- Relations.
- Christianity.
- Nigeria--Politics and government--1993-2007.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 283 pages : maps ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Frankfurt ; New York : Campus Verlag ; Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press [distributor], [2008]
- Summary:
- When democracy was introduced to Nigeria in 1999, one third of its federal states declared that they would be governed by sharia, or Islamic law. In Democratization and Islamic Law, Johannes Harnischfeger argues that such a break with secular constitutional traditions in a multi-religious country can have disastrous consequences. The efforts by Islamic politicians to assert their own religious laws, Harnischfeger contends, have driven Muslims and Christians to confrontation. This book is an essential contribution to debates surrounding the increasingly fraught relationship between religion and politics.&&&&&&&
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [250]-279) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783593382562
- 3593382563
- OCLC:
- 122285131
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