This article identifies the critical legal and sociolegal issues of marital rape in Islamic countries, and calls for immediate reform. Despite recent achievements in promoting women's rights and facilitating access to justice, marital rape remains legally and socially undefined in many Islamic countries. This article employs a comprehensive comparative analysis of statutory law, case laws, and judgements in Islamic countries such as Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, and Malaysia, comparing this to developed Western jurisdictions, including the UK, the US, and Australia. The analysis draws upon statutory law, landmark cases, and scholarly literature to identify the significant gaps produced by traditional interpretations of marital acquiescence. These results highlight the need for substantial legislative reforms, and encourage policymakers and human rights to advocate the adoption of progressive and consent-based approaches in line with universal human rights principles. More importantly, this study provides practical recommendations for bringing about real policy changes and for enhancing the protection of women's rights and dignity in marriages in Islamic-majority countries.

This research, grounded in the Quran and Hadith, examines the position of women in Islam and its impact on Muslim society. It focuses on two key controversial issues: the obligation of veiling for Muslim women and their freedom to pursue education. The study adopts an independent perspective to evaluate social issues often highlighted in media portrayals of Muslim women, including compulsory veiling, educational rights, and personal autonomy within marriage and broader societal contexts. It begins by identifying gender-neutral and gender-specific obligations (farz) in Islam and then discusses these obligations, their associated controversies, and Muslim society's responses to them in detail.

The study examined the impact of some macroeconomic variables of food inflation in Nigeria. Exchange rate (ExR), broad money supply (BMS), interest rate (InR), and food production index (FoPI) were employed as dependent variables, while food price inflation was employed as the dependent variable. Data on the variables from the period 1996 to 2023 were sourced from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Statistical bulletin, and the World Bank, World Development Indicators for Nigeria. The Augmented Dickey-Fuller unit root test was used to test for stationarity of the variables, which revealed that the variables were integrated of order I and order II, which necessitated the adoption of the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds test for long run relationship. Result of the bounds test confirmed that the variables have long run relationship. Outcome of the ARDL estimates revealed that an increase in exchange rate resulted to an increase in food price inflation in the country, while an increase in broad money supply, interest rate and food production index all had significant impacts in reducing food price inflation in the country. The study therefore, recommends among others that the Nigerian government through the monetary authorities should avoid devaluation of the currency given that exchange rate worsens food price inflation in the country.