This book examines the incorporation of newly accessible mass media into practices of
religious mediation in a variety of settings including the Pentecostal Church and Islamic …

This history of the African kingdom that included the famous trans-Saharan trading city of
Kano is the third in the late MG Smiths series of histories of the Hausa-Fulani kingdoms in …

Islamic civic associations have been in the vanguard for the reclamation and reassertion of
people's power in Northern Nigeria. The relationship between the state and Islamic associa …

This paper provides an analysis of the working of a musical form: bandiri. Bandiri is a
musical genre performed by Sufi adepts in northern Nigeria who take popular Hindi film …

This article explores the transformation of the study of tafsīr in Kano city (Northern Nigeria)
during the twentieth century, highlighting the role of a Sufi phenomenon of revival (al-fayḍa …

Abstract The Tijaniyya-Ibrahimiyya, a Sufi Muslim community in West Africa, has a
longstanding relationship with Al-Azhar University in Egypt; since the 1980s, many of the …

Polemical literature can be very illuminating when used as a source for the reconstruction of
intellectual history. 1 At the same time, polemical literature might also have a'sub text'2 that …

'Yan haƙiƙa are a Sufi group that has come to prominence in the second decade of the
twenty-first century in northern Nigeria, with a significant following in Kano. Although …

Abstract ENGLISH SUMMARY: This dissertation explores the changing history, mode of
organization and conduct of the Maukibi (procession) of the Qadiriyya-Nasiriyya (QN) Sufi …