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Muslim modernity in postcolonial Nigeria : a study of the Society for the Removal of Innovation and Reinstatement of Tradition / by Ousmane Kane.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Islam in Africa ; v. 1.Publication details: Boston, MA : Brill, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 283 pages) : mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781423712251
  • 1423712250
  • 1280466790
  • 9781280466793
  • 9047401557
  • 9789047401551
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Muslim modernity in postcolonial Nigeria.DDC classification:
  • 306.6/9765/0966978 21
LOC classification:
  • BP64.N49 K36 2003eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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.
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Revised English version of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Université de Paris, 1993.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Print version record.

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.

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