RT Book T1 Equals in learning and piety: Muslim women scholars in Nigeria and North America T2 Women in Africa and the diaspora A1 Mack, Beverly 1952- LA English PP Madison, Wisconsin PB The University of Wisconsin Press YR 2023 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1830277278 AB Equals in Learning and Piety is an intellectual history of the Yan Taru (Associates) movement, a women-led Islamic educational organization that continues to this day in both northern Nigeria and in the United States. Drawing on extensive scholarship across disciplines including history, Islamic studies, anthropology, gender and women s studies, and literary studies-and alongside rigorous ethnographic research and interviews with leading Nigerian Muslim scholars-Beverly Mack argues that this formidable Muslim women s movement consolidated the religious and social order established by the Sokoto Jihad in the early nineteenth century. Mack shows how women scholars instructed rural Hausa and Fulani women in Muslim ethics, doctrine, traditions, and behavior that followed and replaced the traumatic experience of warfare unleashed by the Jihad. She shows that these unique social engagements shaped people s agency in the dynamic process of social change throughout the nineteenth century. Women imaginatively reconciled Muslim reformist doctrines and traditional practices in Nigeria, and these doctrines have continued to be influential in the diaspora, especially among Black American Muslims in the United States in the twenty-first century. With this major investigation of a little-studied phenomenon, Mack demonstrates the importance of women to the religious, political, and social transformation of Nigerian Muslim society AB List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on Terminology, Names, and Orthography Introduction: Muslim Women as Change Agents in Nineteenth-Century Nigeria and the Contemporary United States Part I: Women Transform Society Chapter 1. Transmission through Generations: Nigerian Yan Taru in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Chapter 2. Muslim Women s Roles and Scholarship Chapter 3. Yan Taru s Role in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Nigerian Education Chapter 4. Fodiology: Yan Taru in North America Part 2 Piety and Poetry Chapter 5. The Sanctity of Knowledge and Women s Authority Chapter 6. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Women s Scholarship Chapter 7. Uwardeji Maryam and Hubbare Residences Chapter 8. Nigerian Yan Taru Instruction and Curricula Conclusion Notes Glossary References Index NO Includes index CN HQ2028 SN 9780299342609 K1 'Yan Taru (Organization) K1 Muslim Women : Nigeria : Societies and clubs : History K1 Muslim Women : Education : Nigeria : History K1 Muslim Women : Education : North America : History K1 Women scholars : Nigeria : History K1 Muslim scholars : Nigeria : History K1 African history K1 Afrikanische Geschichte K1 Gender Studies: Frauen und Mädchen K1 Gender studies: women K1 Geschichte: Theorie und Methoden K1 HISTORY / Africa / General K1 HISTORY / Study & Teaching K1 History: theory & methods K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies