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Veils, Turbans, and Islamic Reform in Northern Nigeria (Paperback)
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Veils, Turbans, and Islamic Reform in Northern Nigeria (Paperback)
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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, unemployment, extravagance, and
corruption, they have used textiles as a means to express their
religious positions on these concerns. Home first to the early
indigo trade and later to a thriving textile industry, northern
Nigeria has been a center for Islamic practice as well as a place
where everything from women's hijabs to turbans, buttons, zippers,
short pants, and military uniforms offers a statement on Islam.
Elisha P. Renne argues that awareness of material distinctions,
religious ideology, and the political and economic contexts from
which successive Islamic reform groups have emerged is important
for understanding how people in northern Nigeria continue to seek a
proper Islamic way of being in the world and how they imagine their
futures-spiritually, economically, politically, and
environmentally.
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