Islamic Family Law and Practices in North Western Nigeria
The goal of this project is to
enhance the practice and application of Islamic Family
Law in North Western Nigeria. The project also aims to
develop a database documenting real life practices
(cultural status and roles of men and women),
circumstances (marriage, loss of spouse through divorce
and death) as they affect women’s enjoyment of their
rights in the seven North Western states covered by this
project.
These practices will be compared to the provisions
contained in the Islamic family law statutes to vividly
establish the disparities between the legal rights of
women as contained in the books of Islamic jurisprudence
(Fiqh) and the practices in the project states. The
project will embark on sensitization through a media and
IT campaign, public events, advocacy as means of
curtailing those practices that constrain women’s
enjoyment of their rights as guaranteed by the Shari’a.
