‘Rapping Islam’: The Nigérien music scene and the challenges of religious reformism

In Niger, since the democratic opening of the 1990s and the subsequent religious liberalism, the set of codes and rules defined by the Izala movement has competed with existing normative systems, which had until then been largely dominated by Sufi doctrines. Today, after thirty years of ideological...

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Published inIFRA-Nigeria
Main Author Apard, Élodie
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published African Studies Centre 2020
Subjects
History
Religion
Nigeria
Niger
sermons
Islamic movements
Boko Haram
Islam
radicalism
NGO
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Summary:In Niger, since the democratic opening of the 1990s and the subsequent religious liberalism, the set of codes and rules defined by the Izala movement has competed with existing normative systems, which had until then been largely dominated by Sufi doctrines. Today, after thirty years of ideological opposition – sometimes violent – the Izala discourse has fully integrated into the Nigérien Islamic landscape, significantly changing the way people think and live Islam, thus normalizing the proce...
ISBN:9789054481843
9054481846
DOI:10.4000/books.ifra.2050