Quranic Schools in Northern Nigeria: Everyday Experiences of Youth, Faith, and Poverty

ISBN-13: 9781108425292 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 286 str.

Hannah Hoechner

Opis

Through the eyes of northern Nigerian Qur'anic students, this book explores what it truly means to be young, poor, and Muslim.

Recenzje

'For all the anxiety they provoke in domestic and global political debate, students who pursue Qur'anic education in northern Nigeria are themselves rarely heard. Hoechner's densely layered book lays out their motivations and concerns in clear prose. Students and scholars alike from a wide range of disciplines will benefit from a close engagement with this important work.' Samuel D. Anderson, International Journal of African Historical

Spis treści

List of figures; List of maps; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on translation and anonymization; 1. Porridge, piety, and patience: Qur'anic schooling in northern Nigeria; 2. Fair game for unfair accusations? Discourses about Qur'anic students; 3. 'Secular schooling is schooling for the rich!' Inequality and educational change in northern Nigeria; 4. Peasants, privations, and piousness: how boys become Qur'anic students; 5. Inequality at close range: domestic service for the better-off; 6. Concealment, asceticism, and cunning Americans: how to deal with being poor? 7. Mango medicine and morality: pursuing a respectable position within society; 8. Spiritual security services in an insecure setting: Kano's 'prayer economy'; 9. Roles, risks, and reproduction: what almajiri education implies for society and for the future; Glossary; Abbreviations; Annex: synopsis 'Duniya Juyi Juyi – How Life Goes'; Bibliography; Index.