Islamic renewal in Niger: From monolith to plurality

Social Compass

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 249-265

  Niandou Souley, Abdoulaye ^a   Alzouma, Gado ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ ABDOU MOUMOUNI   (Niger)

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EID: 25144515663     PISSN: 00377686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003776896043002008     Document Type: Article

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1. L'Avenir, August 1994, p.4. A certain form of Islamism does in fact seek to purify religion, as it is practised in Niger, of all cultural contamination: this ranges from the recitation of Koranic verses wherein no local accent is permitted (one cannot help thinking of Fanon and his Blacks who rolled the "R"s) to marriage ceremonies, where in the name of simplification, any manifestation of local cultural life is rejected.