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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Renne, Elisha P. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
Collection:African expressive cultures.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.