Emergent issues In heterodox Islam among the Yoruba of Nigeria
The field of Islamic Studies is currently witnessing the growth of a sophisticated body of scholarship on “orthodoxy and heterodoxy” in Islamic religious practices. Such a growing scholarship has largely promoted the perception that heterodox Islam otherwise known as local Islam, popular Islam, p...
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Institut Islam Hadhari Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2012
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| Summary: | The field of Islamic Studies is currently witnessing the growth of a sophisticated
body of scholarship on “orthodoxy and heterodoxy” in Islamic religious
practices. Such a growing scholarship has largely promoted the perception that
heterodox Islam otherwise known as local Islam, popular Islam, people’s Islam
or cultural Islam, is not the same as orthodox Islam, which is assumed as real,
pure, right, official or revealed Islam. Such a perception lends credence to the
impression that the dimension of Islamic religious practices in any setting is
supposed to be negotiated and determined by the adherents of Islam in such
a setting and not by external factors or considerations. The purpose of this
article is to examine the continued spread of heterodox Islam among the Yoruba
people of Southwestern Nigeria. The article seeks to identify and analyze the
factors instrumental to the growing influence of heterodoxy on orthodoxy, and
offer practical recommendations for possible purification of Yoruba Islam from
traditional, heretical, heterodox or non-Islamic practices. |
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