Equals in Learning and Piety

Muslim Women Scholars in Nigeria and North America

Beverly Mack (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

294 Seiten

2023
University of Wisconsin Press (Verlag)
978-0-299-34260-9 (ISBN)

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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 US. 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.

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.

Beverly Mack is professor emerita of African studies in the Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Kansas. Her books include Educating Muslim Women: The West African Legacy of Nana Asma’u (with Jean Boyd) and Muslim Women Sing: Hausa Popular Song. She has written widely on Muslim women, particularly scholars, in Nigeria.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	14.06.2023
Reihe/Serie	Women in Africa and the Diaspora
Zusatzinfo	4 b&w illus., 1 map
Verlagsort	Wisconsin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-299-34260-3 / 0299342603
ISBN-13	978-0-299-34260-9 / 9780299342609
Zustand	Neuware