Sharia Debates and Their Perception by Christians and Muslims in Selected African Countries
The international, comparative and multidisciplinary research project "Sharia Debates and Their Perception by Christians and Muslims in Selected African Countries" is located at the University of Bayreuth and funded by Volkswagen Foundation. It is part of the Funding Initiative: Knowledge for Tomorrow – Cooperative Research Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Online book-launching: Sharia Implementation in Northern Nigeria 1999-2006: A Sourcebook |
| Posted by Franz Kogelmann on 06.07.2008 |
We are happy to announce the publication on our website of the full text of Sharia Implementation in Northern Nigeria 1999-2006: A Sourcebook, compiled and edited by Philip Ostien, see http://www.sharia-in-africa.net/pages/publications/sharia-implementation-in-northern-nigeria.php.
Philip Ostien, until very recently a lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Jos, Nigeria, has been associated with the University of Bayreuth for some time, having been the Nigeria Coordinator, first, of our VolkswagenStiftung-sponsored programme on "The sharia debate and the Shaping of Muslim and Christian Identities in Northern Nigeria", 2002-2004, and subsequently, from 2005-2007, of our current programme on "Sharia debates and their perception by Christians and Muslims in selected African Countries". In terms of field-work, the first programme was essentially a two-year effort of systematic information-gathering about sharia implementation in all twelve of Nigeria’s sharia states, which resulted in was unquestionably the most comprehensive collection of materials relating to sharia implementation existing anywhere. Under a grant from Cordaid, a Dutch foundation, Ostien has now updated, edited, and published the documents and other information gathered in 2002-04, together with a great deal of background and analytical material written by himself and other scholars. This has been published, in five volumes, by Spectrum Books Ltd., with two or three additional volumes to come later this year. It is by permission of Ostien and of Spectrum Books that we have republished all this materials on our own website, to facilitate access by students and scholars everywhere.
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