LEADER 03387 am 2200529 n 450 001 9910321055803321 005 20190503 010 $a979-1-0923-1252-2 024 7 $a10.4000/books.ifra.1425 035 $a(CKB)4100000008103946 035 $a(FrMaCLE)OB-ifra-1425 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/59063 035 $a(PPN)236711903 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008103946 100 $a20190506j|||||||| ||| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auu||||||m|||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSearch for Knowledge and Recognition $eTraditional Qur'anic Students in Kano, Nigeria /$fHannah Hoechner 210 $aIbadan $cIFRA-Nigeria$d2019 215 $a1 online resource (102 p.) 311 $a979-1-0923-1200-3 330 $aHannah Hoechner investigates an educational practice that is widespread in Muslim West Africa. ?Traditional? Qur?anic schools, whose students live with their teacher and earn their own livelihood (often through begging), have become the subject of much public concern and anxiety. Hannah Hoechner explores the experience of such Qur?anic students (pl. almajirai; sg. almajiri) in Kano State in northern Nigeria. The almajirai have attracted attention in the context of increased attempts to universalise primary education and of growing concerns about child welfare. They have also been rightly or wrongly associated with Islamic radicalisation, militancy, and the periodic riots that have blighted many northern Nigerian cities. The current spate of Boko Haram violence in northern Nigeria has carried such modes of thinking to the extreme. The Qur?anic schools are described as a ?ticking time bomb? and a ?threat? to national security. Despite the concern and controversy sparked by the almajirai, there is a dearth of research engaging directly and in depth with the constituencies of the ?traditional? Qur?anic schooling system. That the existing literature does not contribute to a better understanding of the system is a particularly severe shortcoming, given the enthusiasm with which speculative narratives are constructed in some sections of the media. Such narratives craft their own realities, as people act upon their stereotypes. Hannah Hoechner?s research aims to fill the gap in knowledge about almajirai. She explores the processes through which children become almajirai and what they learn while they are living as almajirai. She also engages with the (overwhelmingly negative) representations of the system and asks how young people living as almajirai position themselves with respect to such representations. 606 $aEducation 606 $aSociology & Anthropology 606 $areligion 606 $aIslam 606 $aQur?anic schools 606 $aNigerian muslims 610 $aIslam 610 $aNigerian muslims 610 $aQur?anic schools 610 $areligion 615 4$aEducation 615 4$aSociology & Anthropology 615 4$areligion 615 4$aIslam 615 4$aQur?anic schools 615 4$aNigerian muslims 700 $aHoechner$b Hannah$01313044 801 0$bFR-FrMaCLE 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910321055803321 996 $aSearch for Knowledge and Recognition$93031180 997 $aUNINA