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Known throughout the world for her successful defense of Amina Lawal, a young Nigerian woman who was sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery in 2002, Hauwa Ibrahim is the first female lawyer from the Gombe region in Northern Nigeria.
She continues to defend women accused of adultery under Sharia law.
law.slu.edu /registrar/fall2006/new_visiting_faculty.html   (1407 words)

  
 WLUML: News and Views   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
One of the top defenders of women’s rights in Nigeria, Ibrahim has successfully challenged numerous charges and convictions under strict Islamic Sharia law in her country.
On 18 March 2005, a female African-American professor, Amina Wadud, led a group of New York Muslims in the obligatory Friday congregational prayer.
Amina Wadud, professor of Islamic studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, will be the first woman to lead a public, mixed-gender Friday prayer.
www.wluml.org /english/newsbytheme.shtml?cmd[54]=c-1-Empowerment   (9274 words)

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