Confession and retraction: the application of Islamic
legal maxims in Safiyyatu and Amina’s cases in Northern Nigeria

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Confession and retraction: the application of Islamic legal maxims in Safiyyatu and Amina’s cases in Northern Nigeria

The legal procedural system of the Islamic law has been constructively or destructively mounted with criticisms. One of the reasons for these criticisms is assumingly based on the lack of incorporating the objective of the Islamic Law through “intertexualizing” the textual evidences on one hand and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Zakariyah, Luqman
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 2010
Subjects:	KBP Islamic Law
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/32049/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/32049/2/Confession_and_Retraction.pdf

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