Islam and Nigerian foreign policy (1960-2015)

Some widely believed guesstimates have Nigerian Muslims constituting 50 percent of the country’s population. This number translates into 5 percent of the world total Muslim population and one-third of the total number of Muslims in the Sub-Saharan Africa region. With the increasing role Islam plays...

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Main Authors:	Abubakar, Abubakar Usman, Abdel Salam, El Fatih Abdullahi
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	JZ International relations
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/49139/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/49139/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/49139/1/Islam_in_Nigerian_Foreign_Policy_%28Repaired%29.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/49139/2/Scan_v.pdf

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spelling	iium-491392017-03-25T18:35:14Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/49139/ Islam and Nigerian foreign policy (1960-2015) Abubakar, Abubakar Usman Abdel Salam, El Fatih Abdullahi JZ International relations Some widely believed guesstimates have Nigerian Muslims constituting 50 percent of the country’s population. This number translates into 5 percent of the world total Muslim population and one-third of the total number of Muslims in the Sub-Saharan Africa region. With the increasing role Islam plays in international relations, this study aims to explore the role Islam, as one of the major religions in Nigeria, plays in its foreign policy by assessing processes, procedures and implementation of Nigerian foreign policy. Although Islam is arguably the biggest religion in Nigeria, the country is stipulated by its constitution as secular. This particular fact makes any attempt to study the role of religion in the Nigerian public spheres complicated in nature. Nonetheless, using a framework introduced by Adeed Dawisha in his edited book “Islam and Foreign Policy”, the study argues that Islam influences Nigerian foreign policy through processes, procedures and personalities on the one hand and policy implementation on the other. The study concludes that despite being one of the biggest religions in the country, Islam has featured rather scantly in the country’s 55 years of independence. 2016-01-18 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/49139/1/Islam_in_Nigerian_Foreign_Policy_%28Repaired%29.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/49139/2/Scan_v.pdf Abubakar, Abubakar Usman and Abdel Salam, El Fatih Abdullahi (2016) Islam and Nigerian foreign policy (1960-2015). In: International Conference on Business, Economics Social Science & Humanities (BSSH-2016), 18-19 Jan 2016, Kuala Lumpur. http://academicfora.com/bessh-singaporejanuary-25-262016/
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description	Some widely believed guesstimates have Nigerian Muslims constituting 50 percent of the country’s population. This number translates into 5 percent of the world total Muslim population and one-third of the total number of Muslims in the Sub-Saharan Africa region. With the increasing role Islam plays in international relations, this study aims to explore the role Islam, as one of the major religions in Nigeria, plays in its foreign policy by assessing processes, procedures and implementation of Nigerian foreign policy. Although Islam is arguably the biggest religion in Nigeria, the country is stipulated by its constitution as secular. This particular fact makes any attempt to study the role of religion in the Nigerian public spheres complicated in nature. Nonetheless, using a framework introduced by Adeed Dawisha in his edited book “Islam and Foreign Policy”, the study argues that Islam influences Nigerian foreign policy through processes, procedures and personalities on the one hand and policy implementation on the other. The study concludes that despite being one of the biggest religions in the country, Islam has featured rather scantly in the country’s 55 years of independence.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Abubakar, Abubakar Usman Abdel Salam, El Fatih Abdullahi
author_facet	Abubakar, Abubakar Usman Abdel Salam, El Fatih Abdullahi
author_sort	Abubakar, Abubakar Usman
title	Islam and Nigerian foreign policy (1960-2015)
title_short	Islam and Nigerian foreign policy (1960-2015)
title_full	Islam and Nigerian foreign policy (1960-2015)
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title_full_unstemmed	Islam and Nigerian foreign policy (1960-2015)
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Islam and Nigerian foreign policy (1960-2015)

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