Muslims' Eschatological Discourses on Colonialism in Northern Nigeria

Umar, Muhammad S.

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“…This study also helps us rethink our understanding of the Muslim challenge to Christianity and the legacies of colonialism in Nigeria. Existing literature tends to show that Muslims in the north have been the most active in this challenge against the colonial political infrastructures, and thus most contemporary studies of Muslims in Nigeria are based on this region (see Thurston 2016;Mustapha 2014;Adesoji 2011;Kane 2003;Umar 1999). However, as a national movement that cuts across regional boundaries, the activities of the MSSN in educational institutions and on sharia demonstrate that Muslims in the north and south are united in their opposition to Christianity and many legacies of colonial rule.…”

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The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN) since 1954: education, Muslim–Christian encounters and regional variation

Balogun

2022

Africa

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The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN) is a movement that promotes the Islamic identity of Muslims in Nigeria’s educational institutions. Despite promoting the same objectives around the country, a comparison of the MSSN’s activities between the northern and southern regions of Nigeria suggests that the success of the movement varies in many aspects. This is because there are two main types of regional variation relating to the MSSN: the success of Christian opposition to the MSSN’s objectives; and the attitude of many Muslims and the government to those objectives. For example, in the Muslim-dominated northern states, the call by the MSSN to let Muslim girls wear the hijab in schools and the MSSN’s support for the reintroduction of sharia were welcomed by the state governors. However, in the south-west region, where the populations of Muslims and Christians are roughly equal, the MSSN struggled to get the state governors to accept the hijab and the call for sharia was rejected. This article thus argues that, despite envisioning the same notion of Islam for all Muslim students in Nigeria, the MSSN’s activities do not produce a monolithic Islam, and that this reflects differences in the practice of the religion across the country.

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The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN) since 1954: education, Muslim–Christian encounters and regional variation

Balogun

2022

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“…In this connection, it underscores an important incident-the agitation for a separate Hausa Muslims cemetery-in the evolution of Sabo settlement that has neither been acknowledged nor treated, either superficially or in depth, in such outstanding works like Cohen's seminal study of Sabo or scholarly accounts of the development of Sabo or Ibadan city. 18 Above all, the article adds to the growing literature on the relationship between Islam and colonialism 19 by showing just how closely Islamic religion, Hausa commercial interest, and ethnic identity were intertwined in the colonial urban milieuand has remained so.…”

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Space of Power and Power of Space

Onwuzuruigbo

2013

Journal of Urban History

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Spatial struggles can shed light on sociopolitical processes in the evolution of African cities. Pressures on urban amenities apart, there are hassles over space orchestrated by the drift of large population of Africans to the cities. As a result, conflicts over space exist among the living as well as the “dead,” given the shrinking interment spaces in most cemeteries of urban Africa. This paper identifies the more recent controversy over burial space between Hausa Muslims and government, in the 1980s, as a continuation of an earlier struggle in the colonial era. Cemeteries are not just spaces for burying the dead; for Hausa Muslims in colonial Ibadan, the struggle for cemetery space presented a mode of agitation against colonialism. The struggle also sought to reassert Muslim Hausa identity and autonomy, which lost their potency under the weight of profound social changes activated by nationalist aspirations in colonial Nigeria.

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Islam and the European Empires

Motadel

2012

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This essay surveys literature on the engagement of different European empires, including the French, British, Dutch, Russian, and German, with Islam. While the history of Islam and empire has attracted the attention of scholars for decades, most of their studies have been written primarily as contributions to the historiography of a specific empire or a distinct geographic region and rarely refer to research on other imperial powers, even though the questions and themes raised are remarkably similar. The article brings together these studies, exploring the following topics: Islam and imperial rule and, in particular, the ways in which religious institutions were accommodated and controlled in the colonial state; Islam and anti-imperial resistance; and the relationship between Islam, information, and colonial knowledge. It assesses the dominant themes in the field and points to a number of questions that remain to be studied.

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Muslims' Eschatological Discourses on Colonialism in Northern Nigeria

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The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN) since 1954: education, Muslim–Christian encounters and regional variation

The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN) since 1954: education, Muslim–Christian encounters and regional variation

Space of Power and Power of Space

Islam and the European Empires

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