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Evaluating Boko Haram’s War Within the Islamic Legal Framework (2024)
Thesis
Bulama Bukarti, A. Evaluating Boko Haram’s War Within the Islamic Legal Framework. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This study scrutinises the justifications and conduct of Boko Haram’s war through the lens of Islamic laws of war, aiming to ascertain the group’s legal status and the corresponding treatment it warrants. Employing desk-based Islamic legal research m... Read More about Evaluating Boko Haram’s War Within the Islamic Legal Framework.

Codification of Islamic Family Law as an Instrument of Social Reform: A Case Study of the Emirate of Kano and Comparison with the Kingdom of Morocco (2024)
Thesis
Sanusi, S. L. A. Codification of Islamic Family Law as an Instrument of Social Reform: A Case Study of the Emirate of Kano and Comparison with the Kingdom of Morocco. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines the subject of codification of Islamic Family Law as an instrument of social reform in Muslim-majority countries, taking an ongoing exercise in Kano State, northern Nigeria, as a case study. The question of women’s rights and gen... Read More about Codification of Islamic Family Law as an Instrument of Social Reform: A Case Study of the Emirate of Kano and Comparison with the Kingdom of Morocco.

Gender Parity in Islamic Inheritance Law in the United Arab Emirates (UAE): Prospects and Challenges (2022)
Thesis
Shamsuddin, A. M. A. Gender Parity in Islamic Inheritance Law in the United Arab Emirates (UAE): Prospects and Challenges. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The underlying premise of the research is to argue that the Shariʿa, as a source for the development of law, is flexible, adaptable, and malleable, even for those aspects of the Shariʿa that have historically been seen to be sacrosanct. This research... Read More about Gender Parity in Islamic Inheritance Law in the United Arab Emirates (UAE): Prospects and Challenges.