Veils, Turbans, and Islamic Reform in Northern Nigeria (African Expressive Cultures)

__Veils, Turbans, and Islamic Reform in Northern Nigeria__ tells the story of Islamic reform from the perspective of dress, textile production, trade, and pilgrimage over the past 200 years. As Islamic reformers have sought to address societal problems such as poverty, inequality, ignorance, unemployment, extravagance, and corruption, they have used textiles as a means to express their religious positions on these concerns. Home first to the early indigo trade and later to a thriving textile industry, northern Nigeria has been a center for Islamic practice as well as a place where everything from women's hijabs to turbans, buttons, zippers, short pants, and military uniforms offers a statement on Islam. Elisha P. Renne argues that awareness of material distinctions, religious ideology, and the political and economic contexts from which successive Islamic reform groups have emerged is important for understanding how people in northern Nigeria continue to seek a proper Islamic way of being in the world and how they imagine their futures―spiritually, economically, politically, and environmentally. Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Material Religion and Islamic Reform in Northern Nigeria Chapter 2. Islamic Dress, Textile Production, and Trade in the Time of the Sokoto Caliphate Chapter 3. Muslim Identity, Islamic Scholarship, and Cloth Connections in Ilorin Chapter 4. The Sardauna’s Turbans Chapter 5. Veiling, Gender, and Fashion Chapter 6. Performing Pilgrimage: Worship and Travel, Textiles and Trade Chapter 7. Marks of Progress: Islamic Reform and Industrial Textile Production in Kaduna Chapter 8. Failures of Modernity and Islamic Reform: Dress and Deception in Northern Nigeria in the Twenty-First Century Epilogue: Moral Imagination, Material Things, and Islamic Reform Glossary References Index About the Author Material religion and Islamic reform in northern Nigeria -- Islamic dress, textile production, and trade in the time of the Sokoto Caliphate -- Muslim identity, Islamic scholarship, and cloth connections in Ilorin -- The Sardauna's turbans -- Veiling, gender, and fashion -- Performing pilgrimage : worship and travel, textiles and trade -- Marks of progress : Islamic reform and industrial textile production in Kaduna -- Failures of modernity and Islamic reform : dress and deception in northern Nigeria in the 21st century -- Epilogue. Moral imagination, material things, and Islamic reform