Ibrahim S. Sada

THE JUDICIARY UNDER THE SOKOTO CALIPHATE WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE VIEWS OF ABDULLAHI b. FODIO

The Sokoto Jihad leaders following the footsteps of earlier jurists not only advocated for a strong and free judiciary but insisted that in its operation the Islamic ideal of Maslahah (public interests) must be the guiding principle. Abdullahi, the jurist, the ideologue and the scholar discussed, particularly, in his Diya al-Hukkam, the importance ...