The story of the emergence of Islam in Nigerian Igboland is taken simultaneously with the examination of the social reconfigurations that occurred in Igboland deriving from the introduction of Islam into this part of the country. In this respect, this book chronicles social change in a postcolonial era and builds on the rationale that wide spread conversions are responsible for multifarious changes leaving in their wake consequences beyond the imagination of the contemporaneous society. This unique quality makes their occurrence worthy of scholarly attention because they need to be examined,...