The Legal Challenges of Enforcing Shariah Compliant Dress Code in Nigeria Islamic Universities

Abstract

Islamic Universities are known to be established to attain certain objectives; prominent among these is the moral edification of the young generations, with particular interest on the enforcement of dress codes within and outside the campus system. In a bid to achieving this all-important endeavour, policies are clearly formulated to ensure compliance not only on the Part of students, but also the staff. As lofty as this mission is however, it has been observed and rightly too, that certain “legal rights” of some of the subjects of the rules are in the process violated. For the goal to be achieved therefore, and in order to ensure sustainability of these citadels of learning without compromising Islamic principles on which they are built, this paper examines the legal implication associated with the enforcement regime of dress code and how these challenges can be circumvented.