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Islam in Niger accounts for the vast majority of the nation's religious adherents. The faith is practiced by more than 99.3% of the population, although this figure varies by source and percentage of the population who are classified as Animist. The vast majority of Muslims in Niger are Malikite Sunni. Many of the communities who continue to practice elements of traditional religions do so within a framework of syncretic Islamic belief, making agreed statistics difficult. Islam in Niger, although dating back more than a millennium, gained dominance over traditional religions only in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and has been marked by influences from neighboring societies. Sufi brotherhoods have become the dominant Muslim organization, like much of West Africa. Despite this, a variety of interpretations of Islam coexist—largely in peace—with one another as well as with minorities of other faiths. The government of Niger is secular in law while recognising the importance of Islam to the vast majority of its citizens. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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Haut-Sénégal-Niger (Soudan Français)
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Haut-Sénégal-Niger (Soudan Français) - Tome 2: L'histoire
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Haut-Sénégal-Niger (Soudan Français) - Tome 3 : Les Civilisations
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The Tuaregs: Their Islamic Legacy and its Diffusion in the Sahel
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Herrschaft über Bauern : die Ausbreitung staatlicher Herrschaft und einer islamisch-urbanen Kultur in Gobir (Niger)
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Les alhazai de Maradi : histoire d'un groupe de riches marchands sahéliens
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Girkaa : une cérémonie d'initiation au culte de possession bòorii des Hausa de la région de Maradi (Niger)
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Fusion of the Worlds: An Ethnography of Possession Among the Songhay of Niger
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Sufi Mystics of the Niger Desert: Sidi Mahmud and the Hermits of Aïr
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Women's Medicine: The Zar-Bori Cult in Africa and Beyond
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Islam, Public Policy and the Legal Status of Women in Niger
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Dynamics of Islamic education in Niger
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Les routes de l'Islam : anthropologie politique de l'islamisation de l'Afrique de l'Ouest en général et du pays Hawsa en particulier du VIIIè au XIXè siècle
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Les voies de l'islam au Niger dans le Katsina indépendant du XIX au XXe siècle : Maradi, pays hawsa
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Etude de l'évolution des pratiques de l'Islam au Niger
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Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger
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Engaging Modernity: Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger
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Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel
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Telling Stories, Making Histories: Women, Words, and Islam in Nineteenth-Century Hausaland and the Sokoto Caliphate
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L'islam au Soudan central : histoire de l'islam au Niger du VIIe au XIXe siècle
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Islam, sociétés et politique en Afrique subsaharienne : les exemples du Sénégal, du Niger et du Nigeria
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Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town
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L'islam dans l'espace nigérien : de 1960 aux années 2000. Tome 2
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L'islam dans l'espace nigérien : des origines (VIIe siècle) à 1960. Tome 1
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Muslim Critics of Secularism: Ulama and Democratization in Niger
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Anthropologie du rituel de possession Bori en milieu Hawsa au Niger : quand les génies cohabitent avec Allah
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Profession: marabout in rural and urban areas. The example of Niger
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Islam et modernité : contribution à l’analyse de la ré-islamisation au Niger
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Islamic Reform in Twentieth-Century Africa
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Les musulmans, l'école et l'État dans le bassin du Lac Tchad
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Le phénomène Boko Haram : au-delà du radicalisme
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Boko Haram : parti pour durer
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