Islam And Conflict In Northern Nigeria

Author : Yinka Olomojobi
Publisher : Malthouse Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Islam
ISBN : 9788422624

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Islam and Conflict in Northern Nigeria by Yinka Olomojobi Pdf

This is not a book on Islam, either as a religion, a legal system or a way of life. It is about the role of Islam in the dynamics of ethno-religious conflict, particularly in northern Nigeria. Nigeria has a complex ethno-religious profile, and, thanks partly to the British colonial administration, a myriad of individual groups professing various faiths and belonging to different ethnicities have found themselves in a tense, unsettled and competitive political system. The variants of Islam in an increasingly tense society, such as northern Nigeria, is unique, given the heritage of this part of Nigeria that has become a source for communal unity rather than a force for division. From this particular standpoint, the book explains and evaluates the symbiotic relationship between Islam, conflict and conflict prevention. The book is thoroughly documented, meticulously sourced, deeply researched and thus provides valuable and factual information on the construction of Islam and conflict in northern Nigeria.

Author : Abdul Raufu Mustapha
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847011077

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Sects & Social Disorder by Abdul Raufu Mustapha Pdf

Analyses Muslim-Muslim divisions within northern Nigeria, which are as important for understanding the violence in the region as those between Muslim and Christian (for which, see the companion volume, Creed and Grievance), with consequences for long-term peacemaking. Nigerian society has long been perceived as divided along religious lines, between Muslims and Christians, but alongside this there is an equally important polarization within the Muslim population in beliefs, rituals and sectarian allegiance. This book highlights the crucial issue of intra-Muslim pluralism and conflict in Nigeria. Conflicting interpretations of texts and contexts have led to fragmentation within northern Nigerian Islam, and differentIslamic sects have often resorted to violence against each other in pursuit of 'the right path'. The doctrinal justification of violence was first perfected against other Muslim groups, before being extended to non-Muslims: conflict between Muslim groups therefore preceded the violence between Muslims and Christians. It will be impossible to manage the relationship between the latter, without addressing the schisms within the Muslim community itself. Nigeria: Premium Times Books Abdul Raufu Mustapha is Associate Professor in African Politics, University of Oxford. His publications include (co-edited with Lindsey Whitfield) Turning Points in African Democracy (James Currey, 2009). Forthcoming: Creed & Grievance: Muslims, Christians & Society in Northern Nigeria edited by Abdul Raufu Mustapha and David Ehrhardt.

Author : Abdul Raufu Mustapha,David Ehrhardt
Publisher : Western Africa
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847011060

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Creed & Grievance by Abdul Raufu Mustapha,David Ehrhardt Pdf

Analyses the complexities of Christian-Muslim conflict that threatens the fragile democracy of Nigeria, and the implications for global peace and security.

Author : Thaddeus Byimui Umaru
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781483672885

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Christian-Muslim Dialogue In Northern Nigeria by Thaddeus Byimui Umaru Pdf

Religion as a powerful impulse in human existence plays a paradoxical role in society as it both contributes significantly in shaping the spiritual, socio-political and economic lives of millions of people and also acts as a source of conflict. The sad experience of interreligious conflict in Northern Nigeria challenges the claim of Islam and Christianity to be religions of peace. However, understood as closely intertwined with culture and custom of a people, religion can be central in the establishment of peace and conflict resolution in and between communities. This text using the model of dialogue (Nostra Aetate) explores and presents the socio-political and theological resources available in Northern Nigeria (the locality) for a consistent peace building process.

Author : Musa Adziba Mambula
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1683485963

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Nigeria by Musa Adziba Mambula Pdf

This is the book for those who are seeking an understanding of the roots of the religious and political conflict in Northern Nigeria. This book is for those who want to understand the role of ethnic communities in peacemaking. Complementing ethnic commitments, the book also explores the dynamic ways ethnic loyalties can fray the fabric needed for healthy ethnic diversity. The issues of unity within diversity are addressed forthrightly. This book is for those who want to explore the essential nature of Islam as a peace movement. Complementing that quest, the author also explores the essence of the gospel as a movement for reconciliation. This book is for those who seek a realistic understanding of the nature of conflict and its seemingly intractable stranglehold on societies enmeshed in Muslim-Christian discord. This book is for those who are enlivened and challenged by narratives that unlock the central themes of political and spiritual engagement. Horrible accounts of conflict are described. Also included are accounts of earnest quest for peacemaking in times like these. This book is for those who are committed to the quest for a way for political and spiritual resources to enhance peacemaking cooperation. It is a quest for a way for political, economic, and religious themes to flow together in creating healthy civil society wherein both Muslim and Christian will work together in a quest for collegial relations. This book is for those who are earnestly committed to walking the way of Jesus in embracing the suffering love revealed in the open and inviting arms of the Lamb of God on the cross. This book is a revelation of the reconciling love of Jesus, bringing hope within broken hearts.

Author : Brandon Kendhammer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226369174

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Muslims Talking Politics by Brandon Kendhammer Pdf

For generations Islamic and Western intellectuals and policymakers have debated Islam’s compatibility with democratic government, usually with few solid conclusions. But where—Brandon Kendhammer asks in this book—have the voices of ordinary, working-class Muslims been in this conversation? Doesn’t the fate of democracy rest in their hands? Visiting with community members in northern Nigeria, he tells the complex story of the stunning return of democracy to a country that has also embraced Shariah law and endured the radical religious terrorism of Boko Haram. Kendhammer argues that despite Nigeria’s struggles with jihadist insurgency, its recent history is really one of tenuous and fragile reconciliation between mass democratic aspirations and concerted popular efforts to preserve Islamic values in government and law. Combining an innovative analysis of Nigeria’s Islamic and political history with visits to the living rooms of working families, he sketches how this reconciliation has been constructed in the conversations, debates, and everyday experiences of Nigerian Muslims. In doing so, he uncovers valuable new lessons—ones rooted in the real politics of ordinary life—for how democracy might work alongside the legal recognition of Islamic values, a question that extends far beyond Nigeria and into the Muslim world at large.

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1580460186

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Violence in Nigeria by Toyin Falola Pdf

Violence in Nigeria is the most comprehensive study of religious violence and aggression in Nigeria, notably its causes, consequences, and the options for conflict resolution. After an analysis of the links between religion and politics, the book elaborates on all the major cases of violence in the 1980s and 90s, including the Maitatsine, Kano, Bauchi, Kaduna, and Katsina riots. Zones of religious tensions are identified, as well as general characteristics of violence in Nigeria; and issues in inter and intra-religious relations, relious organizations, and the states, and the main actors in the conflicts are explored in great detail. A product of extensive primary research, Violence in Nigeria makes a contribution to contemporary social and political history that no previous study has attempted, and it is written to appeal to specialists and non-specialists alike.

Author : Cecilia Iro-Cunningham
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781365588501

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Identity, Power, and Conflict: Inter-ethnic Perspective of Northern Nigeria Religious Violence by Cecilia Iro-Cunningham Pdf

Violence in major cities of Northern Nigeria has been recurring since the nation's 1960 independence. Although many scholars have analyzed the violence through different perspectives and several solutions applied, violence have continued to prevail within the region. The ability to manage a conflict depends to a larger extend on the indepthness of its analysis. This book is not like any other written about this issue. It is a research study conducted under the guidance of USA Review Board and highly experienced academic scholars of Conflict Analysis and Resolution. It was categorized as the most comprehensive report on the conflict. Extensive literature review, related conflict theories and concepts were applied for proper analysis. The goal for this publication is to shed limelight to this perspective for possible solution to a conflict that has lingered for more than 40 years with genocidal deaths and massive loss of properties.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Islamic fundamentalism
ISBN : 0999558463

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Overcoming Boko Haram by Anonim Pdf

"It is now more than a decade since the violent Islamic group Boko Haram launched its reign of terror across northern Nigeria, claiming more than 27,000 lives and displacing over 2 million people. While its territorial gains have largely been recaptured, the insurgency rages on, devastating communities across vast stretches of the north-east and disrupting governance, livelihoods and food security, as well as posing a security risk to Niger, Chad and Cameroon. Less attention is paid to the pervasive popular rejection of violent extremism on the ground. How did a diverse and economically dynamic West African society unravel so violently, and for so long? Why does radicalization have so little influence on large Muslim populations in surrounding areas, such as the Yoruba in south-western Nigeria, or the poor ethnically similar Muslim majority in central Niger just north of the border? This book looks beyond the details of the insurgency to examine the wider social and political processes that explain why Boko Haram emerged when and where it did, and what forces exist within society to contain it. Drawing on the detailed fieldwork of specialist Nigerian and Nigerianist scholars from Nigeria, connecting the worst of Boko Haram violence to the wider realities of the present, the book offers new insights into the drivers of Islamic extremism in Nigeria - poverty, regional inequality, environmental stress, migration, youth unemployment, and state corruption and human rights abuses - with a view to charting more sustainable paths out of the conflict."--Publisher.

Author : M. Iwuchukwu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137122575

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Muslim-Christian Dialogue in Post-Colonial Northern Nigeria by M. Iwuchukwu Pdf

Iwuchukwu examines the perennial conflicts in different parts of northern Nigeria and why they are popularly called Muslim-Christian clashes. Specifically, he examines the immediate and remote factors that are responsible for the conflicts.

Author : Shehu Sani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124212486

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The Killing Fields by Shehu Sani Pdf

Author : Shedrack Gaya Best
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Conflict management
ISBN : 9780413413

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Religion and Post Conflict Peace Building in Northern Nigeria by Shedrack Gaya Best Pdf

Author : Roman Loimeier
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810128101

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Islamic Reform and Political Change in Northern Nigeria by Roman Loimeier Pdf

The 1970s and 1980s were times of political and religious turmoil in Nigeria, characterized by governmental upheaval, and aggressive confrontations between the Sufi brotherhoods and the Izala movement. In Islamic Reform and Political Change in Northern Nigeria, Roman Loimeier explores the intermeshing of religion in the struggle for political influence and preservation of the interests of Nigerian Muslims. Loimeier's careful scholarship combines astute readings of the work of previous scholars--both published and unpublished--with archival material and the findings of his own fieldwork in Nigeria. His work fills a substantial gap in contemporary Nigerian studies. This book provides invaluable and essential reading for serious students of Nigerian politics and of Islamic movements in Africa.

Author : Johannes Harnischfeger
Publisher : Campus Verlag
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783593382562

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Democratization and Islamic Law by Johannes Harnischfeger Pdf

When democracy was introduced to Nigeria in 1999, one-third of its federal states declared that they would be governed by sharia, or Islamic law. This work argues that such a break with secular constitutional traditions in a multireligious country can have disastrous consequences

Author : Egodi Uchendu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9783112208724

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Dawn for Islam in Eastern Nigeria by Egodi Uchendu Pdf

Die Reihe Islamkundliche Untersuchungen wurde 1969 im Klaus Schwarz Verlag begründet und hat sich zu einem der wichtigsten Publikationsorgane der Islamwissenschaft in Deutschland entwickelt. Die über 330 Bände widmen sich der Geschichte, Kultur und den Gesellschaften Nordafrikas, des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens sowie Zentral-, Süd- und Südost-Asiens.