The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN) since 1954
Education, Muslim–Christian encounters and regional variation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7552192 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adeyemi Balogun (0000-0003-2418-4409, Osun State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 699-717 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9720 • E-ISSN: 1750-0184 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0001972022000596 |
| OpenAlex | W4312156183 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN) is a movement that promotes the Islamic identity of Muslims in Nigeria’s educational institutions. Despite promoting the same objectives around the country, a comparison of the MSSN’s activities between the northern and southern regions of Nigeria suggests that the success of the movement varies in many aspects. This is because there are two main types of regional variation relating to the MSSN: the success of Christian opposition to the MSSN’s objectives; and the attitude of many Muslims and the government to those objectives. For example, in the Muslim-dominated northern states, the call by the MSSN to let Muslim girls wear the hijab in schools and the MSSN’s support for the reintroduction of sharia were welcomed by the state governors. However, in the south-west region, where the populations of Muslims and Christians are roughly equal, the MSSN struggled to get the state governors to accept the hijab and the call for sharia was rejected. This article thus argues that, despite envisioning the same notion of Islam for all Muslim students in Nigeria, the MSSN’s activities do not produce a monolithic Islam, and that this reflects differences in the practice of the religion across the country
Geography · Government (linguistics · Identity (music · Islam · Muslim community · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Sharia · Sociology · State (computer science · Education and Islamic Studies · Gender Studies · Islamic Studies and Radicalism · Law · Religion and Sociopolitical Dynamics in Nigeria
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |