Veils, Turbans, and Islamic Reform in Northern Nigeria

Elisha P. Renne is Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Michigan. She is author of The Politics of Polio in Northern Nigeria and editor of Veiling in Africa.

Renne has written an exciting albeit challenging book. Readers unfamiliar with Nigeria and its complex history may feel overwhelmed at times by the sheer multitude of references to historic events and personalities. This notwithstanding, the book has a great many insights to offer to scholars of religious reform, Islamic dress and northern Nigeria. Everyone with an interest in these topics should read it.- Hannah Hoechner (Islamic Africa)

• Acknowledgments1. Introduction: Material Religion and Islamic Reform in Northern Nigeria 2. Islamic Dress, Textile Production, and Trade in the Time of the Sokoto Caliphate 3. Muslim Identity, Islamic Scholarship, and Cloth Connections in Ilorin 4. The Sardauna's Turbans 5. Veiling, Gender, and Fashion 6. Performing Pilgrimage: Worship and Travel, Textiles and Trade 7. Marks of Progress: Islamic Reform and Industrial Textile Production in Kaduna 8. Failures of Modernity and Islamic Reform: Dress and Deception in Northern Nigeria in the 21st Century9. Epilogue. Moral Imagination, Material Things, and Islamic Reform Glossary Bibliography Index