Entangled Domains - Empire, Law and Religion in Northern Nigeria

"This book traces the emergence of secularism as a way of ordering religion-state relations in colonial and post-colonial Northern Nigeria. The book draws on extensive research in six archival repositories on two continents to provide a novel and comprehensive historiography"--

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Governing Faith: 1. Jousting for souls: indirect rule, Christian missions and the governance of religious difference; 2. Governing Shari'a; Part II. Constituting Difference: 3. The construction of minorities: late imperial secularity and the constitutional politics of decolonization; 4. The making of the 1958 Penal Code; 5. Constituting rights: Christian religious liberty in the late colonial state; Part III. Imagining the Past: 6. The 1977 Constitutional Conference and beyond; Conclusion.

About the author

Rabiat Akande is Assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. She works in the fields of legal history, law and religion, constitutional and comparative constitutional law, Islamic law, International law, and (post)colonial African law and society.

Summary

This book traces the emergence of secularism as a way of ordering religion-state relations in colonial and post-colonial Northern Nigeria. The book draws on extensive research in six archival repositories on two continents to provide a novel and comprehensive historiography.

Foreword

This book provides the first account of the sustained entanglement of law, religion, and empire in Northern Nigeria.

Product details

• Authors: Rabiat Akande, Rabiat (Osgoode Hall Law School Akande
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9781316511558
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51155-8
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; Nigeria, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / Constitutional, Islamic Law, Systems of law: Islamic law, Law & society, LAW / Islamic, Law and society, sociology of law, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general