Muslim Modernity in Postcolonial Nigeria: A Study of the Society for the Removal and Reinstatement of Tradition

by Ousmane Oumar Kane

Scholars have scorned the notion that an organization with such a name could be a proponent of modernity, but Kane (international and public affairs, Columbia U.) stands his ground. He argues that unless the Western trajectory to modernity, and particularly to cultural modernity, is seen as one of many, no significant headway can be made in understanding modernity in its diversity and complexity. In a revision and translation from the French of his 1993 doctoral dissertation for the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, he considers such aspects as agents and aspects of social change in 20th-century Nigeria, and the worldview and recruitment patterns of the Yan Izala (Society for the Removal of Innovation and Reinstatement of Tradition). Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Genres: Nigeria, Islam

Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003