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Title: | Education and the Growth of Religious Associations among Yoruba Muslims: The Ansar-Ud-Deen Society of Nigeria |
Author: | Reichmuth, Stefan |
Year: | 1996 |
Periodical: | Journal of Religion in Africa |
Volume: | 26 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 365-405 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | Muslim brotherhoods Yoruba Islamic education Education and Oral Traditions Religion and Witchcraft Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) education |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1581838 |
Abstract: | One of the oldest, and certainly the largest of the educational associations of the Yoruba Muslims is the Ansar-Ud-Deen Society of Nigeria ('Jam'iyyat An.sâr ad-Dîn Naijîriyâ), founded in Lagos in 1923. The major objective of the society covered the field of education, including the foundation and maintenance of educational institutions. The society's development, from a small group of educated young men in Lagos to a large national body with branches in most parts of the country, has deeply affected the position of Yoruba Muslims in Nigeria before and after independence. It serves to explain how the Yoruba Muslims tried to solve their educational dilemma of combining 'Western' and Islamic forms of learning, how they gained access to elite positions, and how they have handled their Yoruba and Islamic allegiances over different periods of time. Attention is paid to the origin of the Ansar-Ud-Deen Society; the structure of the society; religious activities and institutional consolidation; the role of Muslim women in Lagos; educational expansion and constitutional reform; the role of the Ansar-Ud-Deen in communal development; the Ansar-Ud-Deen and Muslim identity since the seventies; changing educational concerns (from 'Western' to 'Arabic'); and the Ansar-Ud-Deen in contemporary life. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |