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...
Main Author: | Zakariyah, Luqman |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
2010
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Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/32049/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/32049/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/32049/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/32049/2/Confession_and_Retraction.pdf |
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