TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kane,Ousmane
TI  - Muslim modernity in postcolonial Nigeria: a study of the Society for the Removal of Innovation and Reinstatement of Tradition 
T2  - Islam in Africa
SN  - 9781423712251
AV  - BP64.N49 K36 2003eb
U1  - 306.6/9765/0966978 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Brill
KW  - Yan Izala (Organization)
KW  - fast
KW  - Islam and politics
KW  - Nigeria
KW  - Islam
KW  - Societies, etc
KW  - Sufis
KW  - Political activity
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Islamic Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1984-1993
KW  - Samfundsvidenskab
KW  - Sociologi
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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ER  -