- The Yan
Tatsine was a
militant Quranist movement founded by the
controversial Nigerian leader Maitatsine that
first appeared around the
early 1970s. The...
- Maitatsine, was a
controversial Muslim preacher in
Nigeria who
founded the Yan
Tatsine, a
militant Quranist movement that
first appeared around the
early 1970s...
- himself, and is
generally regarded as
marking the
beginning of the Yan
Tatsine insurgency.
Because of this,
there was
widespread impression that Nigeria's...
-
Tatsine riots continued into the
early 1980s. In
October 1982,
riots erupted in Bulumkuttu, near Maiduguri, and in Kaduna, to
where many Yan
Tatsine adherents...
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urban towns during the dry seasons. An
offshoot of
Islam called the ‘Yan
Tatsine’
violently rebelled against the
authorities and non-members.
These radical...
- Nigeria. 'Yan Kala Kato is
often mistaken for a
militant group called Yan
Tatsine (also
known as Maitatsine), an
unrelated group founded by
Muhammadu Marwa...
- in the
north of the country,
where the
Muslim fundamentalist sect Yan
Tatsine ("followers of Maitatsine")
instigated riots that
resulted in four or five...
- himself, and is
generally regarded as
marking the
beginning of the Yan
Tatsine.
Because of this,
there was
widespread impression that Nigeria's security...
-
Islamic uprising led by
Maitatsine (Mohammed Marwa) and his followers, Yan
Tatsine that led to
several thousand deaths.
After Maitatsine's
death in 1980,...
-
Quranism also took on a
militant dimension in the 20th century, with the Yan
Tatsine movement,
founded by
Mohammed Marwa,
better known by his
nickname Maitatsine...
