Equals in learning and piety: Muslim women scholars in Nigeria and North America
Equals in Learning and Piety is an intellectual history of the Yan Taru (Associates) movement, a women-led Islamic educational organization that continues to this day in both northern Nigeria and in the United States. Drawing on extensive scholarship across disciplines including history, Islamic stu...
| Summary: | Equals in Learning and Piety is an intellectual history of the Yan Taru (Associates) movement, a women-led Islamic educational organization that continues to this day in both northern Nigeria and in the United States. Drawing on extensive scholarship across disciplines including history, Islamic studies, anthropology, gender and women s studies, and literary studies-and alongside rigorous ethnographic research and interviews with leading Nigerian Muslim scholars-Beverly Mack argues that this formidable Muslim women s movement consolidated the religious and social order established by the Sokoto Jihad in the early nineteenth century. Mack shows how women scholars instructed rural Hausa and Fulani women in Muslim ethics, doctrine, traditions, and behavior that followed and replaced the traumatic experience of warfare unleashed by the Jihad. She shows that these unique social engagements shaped people s agency in the dynamic process of social change throughout the nineteenth century. Women imaginatively reconciled Muslim reformist doctrines and traditional practices in Nigeria, and these doctrines have continued to be influential in the diaspora, especially among Black American Muslims in the United States in the twenty-first century. With this major investigation of a little-studied phenomenon, Mack demonstrates the importance of women to the religious, political, and social transformation of Nigerian Muslim society List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on Terminology, Names, and Orthography Introduction: Muslim Women as Change Agents in Nineteenth-Century Nigeria and the Contemporary United States Part I: Women Transform Society Chapter 1. Transmission through Generations: Nigerian Yan Taru in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Chapter 2. Muslim Women s Roles and Scholarship Chapter 3. Yan Taru s Role in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Nigerian Education Chapter 4. Fodiology: Yan Taru in North America Part 2 Piety and Poetry Chapter 5. The Sanctity of Knowledge and Women s Authority Chapter 6. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Women s Scholarship Chapter 7. Uwardeji Maryam and Hubbare Residences Chapter 8. Nigerian Yan Taru Instruction and Curricula Conclusion Notes Glossary References Index |
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| Item Description: | Includes index |
| ISBN: | 0299342603 |