22 juillet 2021
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Élodie Apard, « Introduction: Studying Islamic dynamics from a Niger-Nigeria transnational perspective », Institut français de recherche en Afrique, ID : 10.4000/books.ifra.2005
The area that now encompasses northern Nigeria and southern Niger has been, from a historical perspective, an area of unrestricted movement of people, goods, and knowledge. In this area, especially from the late eighteenth century, powerful Hausa commercial cities such as Kano, Katsina, Zaria, and Zinder had a broad cultural and economic influence, while the hegemony of the Sokoto Caliphate led to a wide dissemination of specific religious practices and knowledge. Today, the states of Kebbi, ...