Maitatsine movement

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The Maitatsine movement (in Hausa Yan Tatsine or Kalo Kato ) was a Muslim gathering movement in northern Nigeria that was founded by the Cameroonian preacher Mohammed Marwa Maitatsine (born 1927, died December 31, 1980). In the 1970s and 1980s, particularly between 1980 and 1985, clashes between armed Maitatsine supporters and state security forces in Kano resulted in the death of around 8,600 people.

According to Aliyu Musa, a UK-based lecturer, the group should continue to recruit people for their cause, especially the young people.

Most of the supporters of the Maitatsine movement were unemployed and untrained, often illiterate young people, a deprived part of the population who saw themselves as victims of the economic upswing. The Maitatsine movement turned in the name of Allah against the established Islamic scholars and mosques, whom they held responsible for economic development. He also introduced a number of innovations in religious practice, such as reducing the daily prayers from five to three. Marwa rejected all sources of the religion except the Koran, so that he was considered a heretic by the other Islamic scholars.

After riots had already broken out in Kano in 1972, fighting broke out between the armed supporters of the Maitatsine movement and the state military from December 18 to 29, 1980 . The uprising known as the "Kano Riots" claimed 4,177 deaths, including Mohammed Marwa himself. Some Maitatsine supporters who escaped state power inscribed in the northern Nigerian cities of Maiduguri , Kaduna (both October 26-30, 1982 ), Yola (spring 1984) and Gombe (April 1985) launched further uprisings. The Nigerian government put down the uprisings with the massive use of armed forces, including the air force .

literature

  • Allan Christelow, Abdalla Uba Adamu: Art. "Mai Tatsine" in John L. Esposito (ed.): The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World. 6 Vols. Oxford 2009. Vol. III, pp. 459-462.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ On the life data cf. Abdurrahman I. Doi: Islam in Nigeria . Gaskiya Corporation Limited, Zaria, 1984. pp. 293, 299.
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  3. ↑ Roman Loimeier: Islamic Renewal and Political Change in Northern Nigeria. The conflict between the Sufi brotherhoods and their opponents since the late 1950s . Lit, Münster 1993. p. 170.

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