Muslim modernity in postcolonial Nigeria: a study of the Society for the Removal of Innovation and Reinstatement of Tradition
Covers Muslim modernity in a country with the largest single Muslim population in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is devoted to the study of the largest single Muslim fundamentalist organization in postcolonial Sub-Saharan Africa, the Society for the Removal of Innovation and Reinstatement of Tradition
| Summary: | Covers Muslim modernity in a country with the largest single Muslim population in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is devoted to the study of the largest single Muslim fundamentalist organization in postcolonial Sub-Saharan Africa, the Society for the Removal of Innovation and Reinstatement of Tradition Introduction: Normative versus alternative modernity -- Agents and Aspects of Social Change in Twentieth-Century Nigeria -- Kano in the Nigerian Context -- The Fragmentation of Sacred Authority -- The Social Base of the Yan Izala -- Worldview and Recruitment Patterns of the Yan Izala -- Counter-Reform Movements -- The Politics of Muslim-Christian Confrontation in Nigeria -- The Domestication of Izala. |
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| Item Description: | Revised English version of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Université de Paris, 1993. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record Revised English version of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Université de Paris, 1993 |
| Physical Description: | Online Ressource (xxi, 283 p.), maps. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4237-1225-1 1-4237-1225-0 |
