Enhancing the Teaching and Learning of Islamic Criminal Law in Nigerian Universities: A Practical Approach

Abstract

 The main pre occupation in this work is to be discharged using the arm's chair doctrinal methodology of legal research for being about the most suitable for the specie of exercise here intended. Islamic law of crime and tort has been chosen as a case study in this paper. Having looked at the course syllabus and few relevant textbooks being used for the course, four different areas of improvement have been identified in order to enhance the teaching of this course. These are the need to relate Hudud offences to Maqasid al-Shariah while teaching and the need for mention of specific sub-topics in the bench mark for academic standards (BMAS). The other two are the need to upgrade the level of Arabic language taught to the combined law students and the need for quality ascertainment of Islamic law textbooks in English. What follows now is the analysis and exposition of each of these areas of improvement one after the other and conclusion comes immediately thereafter.