Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

ISS 405 — Islam in Nigeria

ISS department course · Nigerian universities

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

• appreciate the history of Islam in Nigeria
• discuss the contributions of different categories of people towards its development and civilization
• explain the elements that constitute the penal system of Islamic law, and
• differentiate between the penal court in Islam and common law

Course contents

The spread and development of Islamic Institutions in Nigeria. Islam under colonial rule. A comparative study of the penal system (hudūd) in Islam and the penal code in Northern Nigeria. Alkali and the Sharī’ah courts in Nigeria.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study ISS 405.

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