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“The Hand Will Go to Hell”: Islamic Law and the Crafting of the Spiritual Self

SHARIA-IZATION IN NIGERIA, POST-1999 I conducted research in the Nigerian north during the summer months of 2002–5, a turbulent period of both excitement and anxiety about the successful reestablishment of the Sharia code. Of the range of stories I documented, four concerned the criminal sentence of death by stoning rendered by a judge who had also sentenced six persons to limb amputations as punishment for the Sharia crime of sariqah (theft). During the same period, hundreds of persons under Sharia jurisdiction in northern states were sentenced to public caning for varied minor offences such …