Introduction: Normative versus alternative modernity -- Agents and Aspects of Social Change in Twentieth-Century Nigeria -- Kano in the Nigerian Context -- The Fragmentation of Sacred Authority -- The Social Base of the Yan Izala -- Worldview and Recruitment Patterns of the Yan Izala -- Counter-Reform Movements -- The Politics of Muslim-Christian Confrontation in Nigeria -- The Domestication of Izala
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
Analysis
Samfundsvidenskab Sociologi
Notes
Revised English version of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Université de Paris, 1993
