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UNINA9910450531003321 |
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Autore |
Kane Ousmane |
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Muslim modernity in postcolonial Nigeria [[electronic resource] ] : a study of the Society for the Removal of Innovation and Reinstatement of Traditon / / by Ousmane Kane |
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Boston, MA, : Brill, 2003 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-46679-0 |
9786610466795 |
1-4237-1225-0 |
90-474-0155-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (306 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Islam and politics - Nigeria |
Islam - Nigeria - Societies, etc |
Sufis - Nigeria - Political activity |
Electronic books. |
Nigeria Politics and government 1984-1993 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Revised English version of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--UniversiteĢ de Paris, 1993. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references ([253]-269) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
AppendicesIndex |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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