1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450531003321

Autore

Kane Ousmane

Titolo

Muslim modernity in postcolonial Nigeria [[electronic resource] ] : a study of the Society for the Removal of Innovation and Reinstatement of Traditon / / by Ousmane Kane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, MA, : Brill, 2003

ISBN

1-280-46679-0

9786610466795

1-4237-1225-0

90-474-0155-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Collana

Islam in Africa ; ; v. 1

Disciplina

306.6/9765/0966978

Soggetti

Islam and politics - Nigeria

Islam - Nigeria - Societies, etc

Sufis - Nigeria - Political activity

Electronic books.

Nigeria Politics and government 1984-1993

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revised English version of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--UniversiteĢ de Paris, 1993.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references ([253]-269) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.