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In the 1970s, a Nigerian radio cleric built a pipeline between northern Nigeria and Saudi Arabia, sending young men in search of a purified Islam. The returnees would go on to transform how millions practised their faith and unsettle the society around them.
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is a lawyer, writer, and women’s rights activist. She is the founding editor of The Muslim Women Times.



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