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Title: | Religion and Political Culture in Kano |
Author: | Paden, J.N. |
Year: | 1973 |
Pages: | 461 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | Berkeley |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | politics Qadiriyya Sufism Tijaniyya |
Abstract: | Kano, the major urbanic center in Sudanic West Africa, has been a center of Muslim learning and culture since the 15th century and in the 20th century has been a locus od Islamic reform. The book compares the religious and political sectors in Kano in their orientations toward authority and toward community. The author argues that the political culture of Kano has been deeply influenced by Islamic religious values and structures, as shown in the shift from segmental to pyramidal hierarchical authority patterns in Kano Emirate during the 19th and 20th centuries. The integration of the major northern ethnic groups - Fulani, Hausa and Beriberi - has been accomplished partly through the influence of the religious brotherhood, Tijaniyya and Qadiriyya. Factors in Kano leading to the breakdown of the Northern Region and subsequent developments are assessed through 1970. The shift from religious to political criteria of community and authority is considered in relation to problems of national integration in Nigeria. |