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Author:   Hannah Hoechner (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 23.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 15.00cm
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9781108441735

ISBN 10:   1108441734
Pages:   291
Publication Date:   18 June 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of figures; List of maps; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on translation and anonymization; 1. Porridge, piety, and patience: Qur'anic schooling in northern Nigeria; 2. Fair game for unfair accusations? Discourses about Qur'anic students; 3. 'Secular schooling is schooling for the rich!' Inequality and educational change in northern Nigeria; 4. Peasants, privations, and piousness: how boys become Qur'anic students; 5. Inequality at close range: domestic service for the better-off; 6. Concealment, asceticism, and cunning Americans: how to deal with being poor? 7. Mango medicine and morality: pursuing a respectable position within society; 8. Spiritual security services in an insecure setting: Kano's 'prayer economy'; 9. Roles, risks, and reproduction: what almajiri education implies for society and for the future; Glossary; Abbreviations; Annex: synopsis 'Duniya Juyi Juyi – How Life Goes'; Bibliography; Index.

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'As the only full-length ethnography of classical Qur'anic education in Africa - and indeed, as far as I know, anywhere else - this is a tremendously important book ... and, I cannot stress enough, unique contribution to the literature.' Robert Launay, Northwestern University, Illinois 'As the only full-length ethnography of classical Qur'anic education in Africa - and indeed, as far as I know, anywhere else - this is a tremendously important book ... and, I cannot stress enough, unique contribution to the literature.' Robert Launay, Northwestern University, Illinois

Author Information

Hannah Hoechner is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp and a research associate at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford and has conducted extensive ethnographic research in Nigeria, Senegal, and the US. Her work has been published in Africa, Children's Geographies, Qualitative Research, the International Journal for Social Research Methodology, the European Journal of Development Research, and Afrique Contemporaine. As part of her work in Nigeria, she has produced the participatory docu-drama 'Duniya Juyi Juyi – How Life Goes', which won the AFRICAST 2012 Special Award 'Participatory Video for Development'.

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