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Muslim/Christian politics of religion in Nigeria: The Sharīah application and the religious foundations of global Muslim engagement with modernity

Contrary to the traditional modernist theories that development and progress can only be achieved through the western secular modernizing project, many Islamic societies are rejecting modernism and the modernization project, to borrow (Arnason 2003), “as an organic globalizing process” but not “as a globalizing civilization in the plural.” This paper differentiates between Islamic modernity and western modernity, and within this theoretical framework, demonstrates how Muslims in Nigeria differ from Christians on the SharÄ«’ah Application and the relation between religion and state. It also exa…