Umar, Muhammad Sani

Islam and colonialism: intellectual responses of Muslims of Northern Nig…

by Umar, Muhammad Sani

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Presents a study of Muslims' writings on colonialism in northern Nigeria, describing the complexities of Muslims' reactions to British indirect rule. This work is based on Arabic texts, poems, Hausa novels, and treatises on Islamic law.

The research problematic of this dissertation is Muslims' everyday life under the non-Islamic political dispensation of British colonialism in Northern Nigeria from the imposition of colonialism in 1903 to the beginning of decolonization circa 1945. The fundamental research ques…