The Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Lawal Pedro, SAN, has enjoined Imams and scholars to continue educating Muslims on inheritance in Islam. Pedro was the special guest ...

An Islamic scholar in the eyes of Nigerian media is a man of many colours. This is because the media has not got semantic filters to separate criminals from clerics. It is more newsworthy if the man ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this Monday, Nov. 11, 2019 photo, human rights lawyer Hoda Nasrallah poses for a portrait at her office in Cairo, Egypt. Since ...

Erin Stiles, Ph.D., is a cultural anthropologist. Her research focuses on the intersections of religion, law and gender and she conducts fieldwork in Africa (Zanzibar, Tanzania, South Africa, Ghana) ...

A Coptic priest burns incense as an Egyptian couple is married in June at St. Samaan’s Church in the predominantly Christian Manshiyat Nasser area of Cairo. Egypt’s legal system grants the Coptic ...