Muslim modernity in postcolonial Nigeria : : a study of the Society for the Removal of Innovation and Reinstatement of Traditon / / by Ousmane Kane.
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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| Superior document: | Islam in Africa ; v. 1 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Islam in Africa ;
v. 1. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 283 pages) :; maps |
| Notes: | Revised English version of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Universite de Paris, 1993. |
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Table of Contents:
- Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Orthography; Glossary; Introduction: Normative versus alternative modernity; Chapter One: Agents and Aspects of Social Change in Twentieth-Century Nigeria; Chapter Two: Kano in the Nigerian Context; Chapter Three: The Fragmentation of Sacred Authority; Chapter Four: The Social Base of the Yan Izala; Chapter Five: Worldview and Recruitment Patterns of the Yan Izala; Chapter Six: Counter-Reform Movements; Chapter Seven: The Politics of Muslim-Christian Confrontation in Nigeria; Chapter Eight: The Domestication of Izala; Conclusion; Bibliography; Appendices; Index