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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kane, Ousmane.

Series:

Islam in Africa ; v. 1.

Islam in Africa ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam and politics--Nigeria.

Islam and politics.

Islam--Nigeria--Societies, etc.

Islam.

Sufis--Nigeria--Political activity.

Sufis.

Nigeria--Politics and government--1984-1993.

Nigeria.

Yan Izala (Organization).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 283 pages) : maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Brill, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

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

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

ISBN:

1-280-46679-0

9786610466795

1-4237-1225-0

90-474-0155-7

OCLC:

191039310