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Veils, turbans, and Islamic reform in northern Nigeria /

Veils, Turbans, and Islamic Reform in Northern Nigeria tells the story of Islamic reform from the perspective of dress, textile production, trade, and pilgrimage over the past 200 years. As Islamic reformers have sought to address societal problems such as poverty, inequality, ignorance, unemploymen...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Renne, Elisha P. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
Series:African expressive cultures.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Material religion and Islamic reform in northern Nigeria
  • Islamic dress, textile production, and trade in the time of the Sokoto Caliphate
  • Muslim identity, Islamic scholarship, and cloth connections in Ilorin
  • The Sardauna's turbans
  • Veiling, gender, and fashion
  • Performing pilgrimage : worship and travel, textiles and trade
  • Marks of progress : Islamic reform and industrial textile production in Kaduna
  • Failures of modernity and Islamic reform : dress and deception in northern Nigeria in the 21st century
  • Epilogue. Moral imagination, material things, and Islamic reform.