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

• Autore: Kane Ousmane
• Pubblicazione: Boston, MA, : Brill, 2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxi, 283 pages) : maps
• Disciplina: 306.6/9765/0966978
• Soggetto topico: Islam and politics - Nigeria; Islam - Nigeria - Societies, etc; Sufis - Nigeria - Political activity
• Soggetto geografico: Nigeria Politics and government 1984-1993
• Note generali: Revised English version of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Universite 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; Appendices; Index
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Muslim modernity in postcolonial Nigeria
• ISBN: 1-280-46679-0; 9786610466795; 1-4237-1225-0; 90-474-0155-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817327903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Islam in Africa ; ; v. 1.