o:id
	12763
url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/12763
o:resource_template
	Journal article
o:resource_class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
dcterms:title
	Shari'a as De-Africanization: Evidence from Hausaland
dcterms:subject
	Hausa people
	Zinder
	sharia
	September 11 attacks
	Katsina State
	West Africa
	witchcraft
	Northern Nigeria
dcterms:publisher
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/25010
dcterms:date
	2003
dcterms:type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8475
dcterms:identifier
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117312319 Q117312319
	iwac-reference-0000263
dcterms:language
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8322
dcterms:abstract
	Terrorist attacks on the United States on 11 September 2001 overlapped with ongoing movements of Islamic fundamentalism in sub-Saharan Africa; however, these movements have not been identical, nor have they encountered uniform responses from the governments overseeing them. This is evident in the Hausa borderlands of Niger and Nigeria, where I conducted fieldwork (first begun in the early 1980s) two months after the attacks. Differences in the application of shari'a (Islamic law) on both sides of the border accentuate differences in Hausa culture and society along national (i.e., Nigérien vs. Nigerian) lines. Traditional Hausa customs that have flourished for centuries (praise-singing, drumming, group dancing, and singing) are now proscribed in the northern Nigerian state of Katsina, where shari'a is tantamount to de-Africanization. In contrast, Zinder, a neighboring state in the Republic of Niger, has so far resisted a comparable Islamization of its legal code. Cultural differentiation across the Niger-Nigeria boundary persists along religious lines, despite the status of Islam as the common faith. This inflected globalization of Islam highlights the significance of national boundaries in delimiting the influence of religious revivalism. Other differences relating to Islamization are inferred from comparing the extent of pilgrimage to Mecca and the incidence of wife seclusion in neighboring Hausa villages on each side of the Niger-Nigeria boundary.
dcterms:spatial
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/540
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/541
bibo:authorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1744
bibo:doi
	https://doi.org/10.1353/AT.2003.0061 10.1353/AT.2003.0061
bibo:issue
	1
bibo:pageEnd
	75
bibo:pageStart
	51
bibo:volume
	50

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