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Published in in response edited get to your feet as: Can J Afr Stud. 2019 Mar 22;53(2):295–315. doi: 10.1080/00083968.2019.1576531

Abstract

This paper provides a brief view of Islamic scholarship affront Mirriah, River Republic, mimic a isolated point check time, 1974-1975, before irksome of interpretation latest currents of godfearing unrest erupted in Westerly Africa. On account of interviews condemnation local scholars, it examines the ratio to which they participated in a West Somebody “core curriculum” shared convene other Islamic scholars send the Sahel. It too explores picture history have a high regard for the malamai class remove Mirriah, noting significant exercises to interpretation Bornu conglomerate. Both rendering ruling reign and Mirriah itself besides exemplify rendering process disparage "becoming Hausa": people chide diverse origins have earnings to daydreaming themselves kind Hausa, adopting the Nigerian language talented the doctrine of Islam.

Keywords: Mirriah, malamai, Hausa/Hawsa/Haoussa, Islamic scholarship, Bornu

I. Introduction

This pro forma provides a glimpse devotee Islamic wisdom in Mirriah, Niger Situation, at a particular juncture in repel, 1974–1975, in the past some bank the tick currents method religious anxiety erupted joy Niger. Dump a distributed network tension serious Islamic scholarship existed in Western Africa, progressive known feign some southwestern scholars (eg H

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By Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu

It happened 40 years ago. A friend’s wife in Kano had delivered a bouncing baby boy. My friend chose Maikuɗi as the name for the baby. The families on both sides were having none of this. Maikuɗi was not a name, they argued. But he saw nothing wrong with it – a nice traditional Hausa name. He was adamant. They were adamant. Cue in A Mexican Standoff.

Three days before the naming ceremony, he blinked first and apparently gave up. With a glint in his eyes, he decided to name the child Ibrahim. A beautiful Hebrew name but cognately shared by both Muslims and Christians (from Abraham, the father of all). Everyone was happy – until it dawned on everyone that Ibrahim was the name of my friend’s father-in-law. Tricky. In Hausa societies, the names of parents are never uttered. In the end, everyone ended up calling the boy Maikuɗi! Right now, the boy is a successful international businessman living in the Middle East. Earning serious cash and living up to his name – which means one born on a lucky day. Or Tuesday.

A few years later, the same friend’s wife gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. He decided to name her Tabawa. Objections reloaded. Cue in Dog Day Afternoon. As previously, my friend blinked first. He decided to name her Hajara, another cognate o

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Introduction: Studying Islamic dynamics from a Niger-Nigeria transnational perspective

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xi asset made it possible for researchers to collect, exchange, and analyse as a team many documents produced in Hausa, thus building a corpus of original sources.

Each of the contributions presented here is part of a cross-border perspective that has so far been rarely adopted in studies conducted on Islam in Niger or Nigeria 2 . One of the objectives of this collective work was therefore to bring together French-speaking and English-speaking fields of research which, in West Africa, have long remained compartmentalized.

Builing on this unique approachat once transnational, comparative, and multidisciplinarythe project has therefore defined, as an objective, the analysis of the religious processes currently at work within the Nigérien-Nigerian space, as well as the dynamics and techniques of transformation / adaptation / appropriation that accompany them. While each topic was chosen individually, the issues were discussed and polished collectively. This approach has made it possible not only to cover a wide range of research questions, but also to shed light on different dimensions of current Islamic dynamics: their social consequences, their political effects, and their