Entangled Domains

Empire, Law and Religion in Northern Nigeria

Rabiat Akande (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto)

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English

Cambridge University Press
01 June 2023

Islamic law; Law & society; Constitutional & administrative law

Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society

Set in Colonial Northern Nigeria, this book confronts a paradox: the state insisted on its separation from religion even as it governed its multireligious population through what remained of the precolonial caliphate. Entangled Domains grapple with this history to offer a provocative account of secularism as a contested yet contingent mode of governing religion and religious difference. Drawing on detailed archival research, Rabiat Akande vividly illustrates constitutional struggles triggered by the colonial state's governance of religion and interrogates the legacy of that governance agenda in the postcolonial state. This book is a novel commentary on the dynamic interplay between law, faith, identity, and power in the context of the modern state's emergence from colonial processes.

By: Rabiat Akande (Osgoode Hall Law School York University Toronto)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 342g
ISBN: 9781316511558
ISBN 10: 1316511553
Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Pages: 202
Publication Date: 01 June 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; Part I. Governing Faith: 1. Jousting for souls: indirect rule, Christian missions and the governance of religious difference; 2. Governing Shari'a; Part II. Constituting Difference: 3. The construction of minorities: late imperial secularity and the constitutional politics of decolonization; 4. The making of the 1958 Penal Code; 5. Constituting rights: Christian religious liberty in the late colonial state; Part III. Imagining the Past: 6. The 1977 Constitutional Conference and beyond; Conclusion.

Rabiat Akande is Assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. She works in the fields of legal history, law and religion, constitutional and comparative constitutional law, Islamic law, International law, and (post)colonial African law and society.

Reviews for Entangled Domains: Empire, Law and Religion in Northern Nigeria

'With the shift away from sponsoring Christian missionary projects, the British empire turned to indirect rule with secularist features. In this enterprising history of law and politics in northern Nigeria between past and present, Rabiat Akande illuminates how such secularism intruded on religious and social identity and reshaped it, with profound legacies for the constitutionalism that followed in the postcolony. This is an extremely impressive achievement.' Samuel Moyn, Yale Law School 'Discussions of secularism often descend into arguments 'for' or 'against' secularism. Not so for Rabiat Akande's study of the entanglements of law, religion, and empire in colonial Northern Nigeria and its postcolonial epilogue. Emphasizing the ambivalences of secular governance, Akande explores the unexpected expressions of the state's colonial and postcolonial claims to secularity. An important contribution to the globalization of critical secularism studies.' Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Northwestern University