About Us

Vision

The Department of Islamic Law provides a range of local, national and global themes for study from a critical legal perspective. Students have the opportunity to link previous or current experiences to academic inquiry. The programme aims to stimulate excellent study, research, and writing skills based on a stronger foundation and better understanding of the role of Islamic Law in a contemporary context. It is also aimed at promoting a better understanding of Islamic law-related framework in different areas of Islamic Law.

Mission

1. Train a workforce, i.e. scholars and experts of Islamic Law that can meet the country’s needs in its tripartite legal (Customary, Common and Islamic Law) system in its tertiary institutions.
2. Contribute to the advancement of knowledge through creative Islamic legal thinking towards effecting socio-economic legal policies and development of Nigeria in particular and humankind in general.
3. Critically engage with the major theoretical debates on the role of Islamic Law in any given field.
4. Display the ability to deal with different types of legal systems and laws through Islamic Law.
5. Apply critical and contextual approaches across a wide variety of subject matter.