Muhammad Kamaldeen IMAM-TAMIM

Muhammad Kamaldeen Imam-Tamim holds an LL.B degree in Common and Islamic Law from University of Ilorin, Ilorin-Nigeria, an LLM degree from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife and a Ph.D. degree in Comparative Family Law (Islamic Law, Customary Law & Statutory Marriages), Legal Pluralism and Family Law reform from the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). He is a Senior Lecturer and the Project Coordinator in the Department of Islamic Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ilorin, Ilorin. He is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, an Alumnus of the Harvard Law School Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP), member of the Commission on Legal Pluralism, Comparative Law Society of Nigeria among others. He teaches courses such as Islamic Family Law, Islamic Medical Law, and Law Research Methodology both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has research interests in Islamic Law, Islamic Family Law, Islamic Medical Law and Islamic Law & technology.

EDUCATION

PGDE (University of Ilorin)
PhD (Law) (IIUM, Malaysia)
LL.M (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife)
BL (Nigerian Law School)
LL.B (Common & Islamic Law) (Unilorin)
Diploma in Law (CAILS, Ilorin)

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Law, Religious studies

Scopus Publications

Islamic law perspective on emerging issues from legal frameworks on domestic violence in Nigeria
Muhammad Kamaldeen Imam-Tamim
Promoting Efficiency in Jurisprudence and Constitutional Development in Africa, 2022
Shalla v State: Is Blasphemy a Religious or Criminal Offence in Nigeria under Islamic Law?
Law and Religion in the Commonwealth the Evolution of Case Law, 2022
EXAMINING THE LEGALITY OF NIGERIA DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION AS THE INSURER OF CUSTOMERS’ DEPOSITS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SHARIA
Muhammad Kamaldeen Imam-Tamim, Khadijah Akorede Salawu
Jurisdictie Jurnal Hukum Dan Syariah, 2021
The establishment of NDIC was the government’s major policy shift from saving the banks from collapsing to saving the deposits of the depositors, and the Corporation insures both conventional and Islamic banks. However, the establishment and operational framework of this Corporation is devoid of any Islamic bias. The research work examines the legality of NDIC as an insurer of customers’ deposits within the provisions of Sharia by looking into the need for and the extent to which Islamic banks can participate in the scheme. The research is a normative research and uses a qualitative approach. This method is used to obtain the data from the sources in order to examine the legality of NDIC and its operation within Sharia as the insurer of Islamic bank deposits. The results showed that the major aim of the Corporation is in line with the Sharia but the operations enacted by some legislative frameworks are contrary to the provisions of Sharia. Some recommendations were prescribed to amend these lapses to further improve the standing of NDIC as an Insurer of the deposits of Islamic bank’s customers’, introduction of a mudarabah or musharakah arrangement where the parties involved would share the profit and loss in respect of the invested funds, and the adoption of an Islamic Deposit Insurance Scheme to ensure that Islamic Banks’ participation in DIS is fully sharia-compliant.Pembentukan NDIC merupakan perubahan kebijakan utama pemerintah untuk menyelamatkan bank dari keterpurukan. Kebijakan ini juga bertujuan menyelamatkan simpanan para deposan dan asuransi perusahaan di bank konvensional maupun syariah. Penelitian ini mengkaji legalitas NDIC sebagai penjamin simpanan nasabah dalam ketentuan syariah dengan melihat kebutuhan dan partisipasi bank syariah dalam skema tersebut. Artikel ini merupakan penelitian normatif menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif. Metode tersebut digunakan untuk memperoleh data dari sumber dan menguji legalitas NDIC serta operasionalnya sebagai penjamin simpanan bank syariah. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa tujuan utama perusahaan sejalan dengan syariah, tetapi eksekusi yang dilakukan oleh beberapa kerangka legislatif bertentangan dengan ketentuan syariah. Beberapa rekomendasi ditentukan untuk mengubah penyimpangan ini, yakni (1) meningkatkan posisi NDIC sebagai penjamin simpanan nasabah bank syariah, (2) sosialisasi akad mudarabah atau musyarakah yang memberikan aturan pada pihak-pihak terlibat untuk berbagi keuntungan dan kerugian sesuai investasi dana, dan (3) penerapan Skema Asuransi Simpanan Syariah untuk memastikan bahwa partisipasi bank syariah dalam DIS sepenuhnya sesuai syariah.
Impact of globalisation on domestic family law: multi-tiered marriage in Nigeria as a case study
M. K. Imam-Tamim, Najibah Mohd Zin, Norliah Ibrahim, Roslina Che Soh @ Yusoff
Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 2016
The concept of globalisation is commonly discussed as an issue in international law. However, little attention is paid to its influence in domestic family law. As a result of the growing trend of globalisation, legal and cultural norms of the host culture and the foreign culture are fused, thereby, leading to cultural homogenisation or cultural hybridisation, depending on the level of accommodation of the foreign norm by the host norm. One of the areas where hybridisation or homogenisation of cultural and legal norms manifests, especially in African countries including Nigeria, is in the marriage system, particularly in the conclusion of marriage contracts. In Nigeria, one of the impacts of cultural hybridisation is the evolvement of multi-tiered marriage, where a couple combines marriages under the statute law, customary law and religious law, especially Islamic law. This paper is an exploratory study of how globalisation impacts on how and why multi-tiered marriage is contracted in contemporary Nigeria. The paper also briefly discusses how the combination of marriages as a response to globalisation affects the operation of family law rules in Nigeria as well as the rights of the parties involved, especially the women.

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

Justifiability of the Protection of Intellectual Property Right under Conventional and Islamic Laws
MK Imam-Tamim, HI Ibiyinka
Department of Sharia, Faculty of Law, University of Maiduguri, Nigeria. , 2025
2025
Maqasid al-Shariah-Based Thought on the Malikiyyah's View of the Concept of al-Radd
MK Imam-Tamim, TO Jaji, JM IBRAHIM, MM Uthman
Faculties of Law, University of Ilorin, KWASU & Al-Hikmah University , 2024
2024
Change of Ethinc Nationality with the Accompanying Personal Law in Nigeria Chances and challenges
HO Ijaiya, IA Abdulqadir, MK Imam-Tamim, LA Abdulrauf, RF Mahmoud, ...
Nigerian Association of Law Teachers (NALT) , 2023
2023
The Islamic Law Marriage Contract in Nigeria
MK Imam-Tamim
J. Comp. L. 18, 151 , 2023
2023
Comparative Review of Literature on Protection of Data Privacy Right under Shariah and Nigerian Laws
MK Imam-Tamim, ABA Mustapha
Faculties of Law, University of Ilorin, KWASU & Al-Hikmah University , 2023
2023
Disability Rights From Islamic Law Perspective
MK Imam-Tamim, A Shomope
Al-Hikmah University Journal of Islamic Law 1 (1), 206-221 , 2023
2023
Islamic Law Perspective on Emerging Issues from Legal Frameworks on Domestic Violence in Nigeria
MK Imam-Tamim
Promoting Efficiency in Jurisprudence and Constitutional Development in … , 2022
2022
Citations: 3
The Shari’ah Frameworks towards Combating Corruption and the Roles of Nigerian Muslim Youth
MK Imam-Tamim
Conference on Islam in Nigeria (COIN) Vol , 2022
2022
An Examination of the Islamic Legal Maxim of al-Adatu al-Muhakkamah as it relates To Trade Custom of Owo Laada among Ram Traders in Ilorin Metropolis.
MK Imam-Tamim, I Atanda, A Abdulkareem
The Place of Ilorin Emirate in the Development of Nigeria, 335-357 , 2022
2022
Examining the Legality of Nigeria Deposit Insurance Commission As Insurer of Customers' Deposits in Islamic Banks in Nigeria
MK Imam-Tamim, KA Salawu
Journal of Malaysian and Comparative Law 49 (1), 105 , 2022
2022
Citations: 2
Implementation of Teachers' Registration Council of Nigeria Guidelines in Kwara State, Nigeria
MK Imam-Tamim, YA Fasasi, JO Ottan
International Journal of Educational Management 19 (2) , 2021
2021
Legal and Socio-Economic Implications of Forceful Ejection of Tenants in Nigerian Urban Cities: Lagos as Case Study.
MK Imam-Tamim, HA Olawuyi, JM Ibrahim
Global Issues and Nigerian Laws, 17-45 , 2021
2021
Understanding the Jurisprudential Thoughts Behind the Legal Reasoning of the Maliki and Hanafi Schools
MK Imam-Tamim, KO Adeyemi
Al-Hikmah University Journal of Islamic Law 5, 163-190 , 2021
2021
EXAMINING THE LEGALITY OF NIGERIA DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION AS THE INSURER OF CUSTOMERS’DEPOSITS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SHARIA
MK Imam-Tamim, KA Salawu
Jurisdictie: Jurnal Hukum dan Syariah 12 (2), 228-257 , 2021
2021
Citations: 1
A Comparative Analysis of Criminal Procedural Systems Under Shari’ah and Common Law
MK Imam-Tamim
Available at SSRN 3704484 , 2020
2020
A Re-Appraisal of the Current Status of Application of Islamic Law in Nigeria’s Pluri-Legal System from the Lens of Contemporary Jurisprudence
MK Imam-Tamim, JA Ibrahim
OAU Law Journal 4 (1), 26-41 , 2020
2020
CLAIM ON FUTURE INTEREST AS MATRIMONIAL PROPERTY: SPECIAL REFERENCE TO MALAYSIA SHARI'AH COURTS
ZA Abd Ghadas, N Ibrahim, MK Imam-Tamim
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MANAGERIAL STAFF OF CULTURE AND ARTS HERALD, 892-896 , 2018
2018
Same-sex marriage, civil marriage and cohabitation: The law, the rights and responsibilities
BB Oludairo, MK Imam-Tamin
Nnamdi Azikiwe UJ Int'l L. & Juris. 9, 179 , 2018
2018
Citations: 1
The Precautionary Approach to the Installation of Telecommunication Masts in Residential Areas in Nigeria: A Legal Response
MK Imam-Tamim, O Oyeyipo, YA Alajo
IIUM Law Journal 24 (1) , 2016
2016
Citations: 10
Impact of globalisation on domestic family law: multi-tiered marriage in Nigeria as a case study
MK Imam-Tamim, N Mohd Zin, N Ibrahim, R Che Soh@ Yusoff
The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 48 (2), 256-272 , 2016
2016
Citations: 22

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

Impact of globalisation on domestic family law: multi-tiered marriage in Nigeria as a case study
MK Imam-Tamim, N Mohd Zin, N Ibrahim, R Che Soh@ Yusoff
The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 48 (2), 256-272 , 2016
2016
Citations: 22
The Precautionary Approach to the Installation of Telecommunication Masts in Residential Areas in Nigeria: A Legal Response
MK Imam-Tamim, O Oyeyipo, YA Alajo
IIUM Law Journal 24 (1) , 2016
2016
Citations: 10
Challenges of sustainable development in Nigeria: Legal perspectives
MK Imam-Tamim
Law and sustainable development in Africa, 23-46 , 2012
2012
Citations: 8
The Children's Rights to Education in Nigeria: Challenges and Solutions
AH Folorunsho, MK Imam-Tamim, TA Abdulraheem
Journal of Public Law & Constitutional Practice 6, 104-117 , 2014
2014
Citations: 4
Islamic Law Perspective on Emerging Issues from Legal Frameworks on Domestic Violence in Nigeria
MK Imam-Tamim
Promoting Efficiency in Jurisprudence and Constitutional Development in … , 2022
2022
Citations: 3
Examining the Legality of Nigeria Deposit Insurance Commission As Insurer of Customers' Deposits in Islamic Banks in Nigeria
MK Imam-Tamim, KA Salawu
Journal of Malaysian and Comparative Law 49 (1), 105 , 2022
2022
Citations: 2
Child Rights in Nigeria: Exploring the contentions between the Child Rights Act 2003, Cultural Practices and Islamic Rules
TA Abdulraheem, MK Imam-Tamim, AH Folorunsho
Al-Hikmah Law Journal 1 (2) , 2015
2015
Citations: 2
KYOTO PROTOCOL: THE MARKET BASED BENEFITS FOR AFRICA AND THE CHALLENGES OF THE DISPUTE RESOLUTION REGIME
MM AKANBI, M Mustapha, MK IMAM-TAMIM, AO ABDULKADIR
Sacha Journal of Environmental Studies 2 (1), 33-47 , 2012
2012
Citations: 2
EXAMINING THE LEGALITY OF NIGERIA DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION AS THE INSURER OF CUSTOMERS’DEPOSITS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SHARIA
MK Imam-Tamim, KA Salawu
Jurisdictie: Jurnal Hukum dan Syariah 12 (2), 228-257 , 2021
2021
Citations: 1
Same-sex marriage, civil marriage and cohabitation: The law, the rights and responsibilities
BB Oludairo, MK Imam-Tamin
Nnamdi Azikiwe UJ Int'l L. & Juris. 9, 179 , 2018
2018
Citations: 1
Driving from the Backseat: An Exploratory study of the dearth of Malaysian Women in political decision making process
ITM Kamaldeen, MZ Najibah, I Norliah
Journal of Asian and African Social Science and Humanities 1 (1), 27-47 , 2015
2015
Citations: 1
PROTECTING THE CHILDREN’S RIGHT TO BASIC EDUCATION AND HEALTH IN NORTHERN IN NIGERIA: EXPLORING INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF ZAKAT AND WAQF AS A VIABLE OPTION.
TA Abdulraheem, HF Ahmad, MK Imam-Tamim
Al-Hikmah Journal of Education 2 (1), 249-258 , 2015
2015
Citations: 1
A doctrinal review of literature on multi-tiered marriage in Nigerian family law
MK Imam-Tamim
Journal of Public Law 7, 40-49 , 2015
2015
Citations: 1
Challenges of Sustainable Development: Legal Perspectives
MK Imam-Tamim
Grosvenor House Publishing, United Kingdom , 2012
2012
Citations: 1
The Impact of Climate Change on Africa and the Challenges of Dispute Resolution Regime under the Kyoto Protocol
OA Abdulkadir, MM Akanbi, MK Imam-Tamim
Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan , 2012
2012
Citations: 1
„Rethinking on Dilution of Custom with Religion: An Exposition of the Nigerian and Malaysian Legal Systems‟
A OWOLABI, MM Akanbi, BA Abdulkadir, OA Sambo, MK Imam-Tamim
LNS 1 (30), 11 , 2012
2012
Citations: 1
Justifiability of the Protection of Intellectual Property Right under Conventional and Islamic Laws
MK Imam-Tamim, HI Ibiyinka
Department of Sharia, Faculty of Law, University of Maiduguri, Nigeria. , 2025
2025
Maqasid al-Shariah-Based Thought on the Malikiyyah's View of the Concept of al-Radd
MK Imam-Tamim, TO Jaji, JM IBRAHIM, MM Uthman
Faculties of Law, University of Ilorin, KWASU & Al-Hikmah University , 2024
2024
Change of Ethinc Nationality with the Accompanying Personal Law in Nigeria Chances and challenges
HO Ijaiya, IA Abdulqadir, MK Imam-Tamim, LA Abdulrauf, RF Mahmoud, ...
Nigerian Association of Law Teachers (NALT) , 2023
2023
The Islamic Law Marriage Contract in Nigeria
MK Imam-Tamim
J. Comp. L. 18, 151 , 2023
2023