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The Right to Change Sex

From: The Right to Change Sex

From: The Right to Change Sex by Andrea Long Chu

Some Bori spirits.

Note the inclusion of tribes that were neighbors to the Hausa.

From: Man in Africa

#Bori #Hausa

How bori is a way for Hausa women to express their autonomy and personhood in Northern Nigeria.

From: Man in Africa

#bori #northern Nigeria #islam in arewa #Hausa women

Murray Last insinuating altered states may influenced the desire for spiritual elevation in the 19th century?

From: From dissent to dissidence

#islam in africa #islam in arewa

From: An African Case of Political Islam: Nigeria

#islam in africa #shiism #Shiism in Africa #tijjaniyah

Sayyid Muhammad Husain Fadlallah, “We Must Think Before We Act”

#shi'a #shiism #islam

From: African Muslims in antebellum America

Slave owners recognizing the intellect of certain enslaved individuals and giving them power over others was a strategic move to minimize the chance of dissent.

#African American Muslims #enslaved muslims

From: African Muslims in Antebellum America

#slavery #African American Muslims #enslaved Muslims

From: The Mediterranean Diet from Ancel Keys to the UNESCO Cultural Heritage. A Pattern of Sustainable Development between Myth and Reality

Patriarchal gender norms meant female education wasn’t a priority in parts of West Africa. The content and duration of schooling differed as the goal of the school was to train girls to become proper wives. Still, Quranic schools educated more girls than French schools. And high caste girls were educated.

#the walking quran #women and Islam #Quranic schools #French colonial schools

People of slave caste could not send their kids to be educated because it would signify a transfer of ownership to the teacher, which the slave did not have.

#the walking quran #slavery and islam

Lower caste people were barred from Islamic education due to racist reasons or perhaps to keep them in a service position given that the ruling ideology was Islam.

#the walking quran #slavery and islam #senegambia

Did the labor compensation apply to hereditary slaves? Which slaves went to Makkah?

#senegambian slavery #the walking quran #slavery and islam #slavery

Distinctions in treatment between honorable and dishonorable members of the Wolof community. The construction of their dishonor vis a vis Islam seems to be a more recent phenomenon. So what was their status in society before Islam?

#the walking quran #Wolof #caste

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