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Quranic Schools in Northern Nigeria: Everyday Experiences of Youth, Faith, and Poverty

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“The voung boys who spend years memorising the whole Qur’an are often demonised in Nigeria as potential Islamists or dismissed as troublesome beggars. However, 1lannah IHoechner’s remarkable study, based on long, careful fieldwork in both Kano and rural Albasu, reveals through the bovs’ ow words their actual lives and ideas as well as their self-discipline and tOughness. All serious analysts of today’s northern Nigeria will have to read this study if they are to shed the old stereotypes about traditional education’ and ‘illiteracy”

Prof. Murray Last, University College, London

Fear of the almajirai, the Qur’anic students nost well-to do Nigerians only see begging on the street, is one of the most persistent and ubiquitous prejudices in Nigerian society. As the Boko Ilaram crisis in the Chad Basin attracts more international attention, a better understanding of this mostiy hidden world is imperative, Hannah Hoechner has listened to the almajirai themselves, reflecting their voices in the pages of this valuable book. She talked to them in their own language and on their Own terms. Hoechner reveals the pain, street smarts, and domestic work involved in constructing their unique identity as brave seckers of religious knowledge, and the very modern reasons that this traditional” system persists.

Andrew Walket, author of Fat the fleart of the lnfdel he FHarroing of Northern Nigeria and the Rise of Bok iaram

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