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The Application of Islamic Law and the Legacies of Good Governance in the Sokoto Caliphate, Nigeria (1804-1903): Lessons for the Contemporary Period

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2013
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Bunza, M. U. (2013). The Application of Islamic Law and the Legacies of Good Governance in the Sokoto Caliphate, Nigeria (1804-1903): Lessons for the Contemporary Period. Electronic Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (EJIMEL), 1, 84–101. http://www.ejimel.uzh.ch

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One of the key jargons of contemporary democracy is good governance, which entails social justice, effective, responsible, and transparent administrative machinery. In the same way, social and political maladies such as corruption, nepotism, favoritism, ethnicity, and flagrant abuse of power were ostracized in the system. Those terms, are usually echoed in Nigeria by politicians and their cohorts rhetorically in the media, with almost nothing to show in practice. Consequently, the faith of Nigerians is being eroded in the successive N

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  • Bunza, Mukhtar Umar

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1

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4

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84

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101

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English

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2013

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2013-12-05

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Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Legal Studies (CIMELS), University of Zurich

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1664-5707

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Bunza, M. U. (2013). The Application of Islamic Law and the Legacies of Good Governance in the Sokoto Caliphate, Nigeria (1804-1903): Lessons for the Contemporary Period. Electronic Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (EJIMEL), 1, 84–101. http://www.ejimel.uzh.ch

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