This article is about the preacher. For the military officer, see Mohammed Buba Marwa.
Muhammad Marwa (died 1980), best known by his nickname Maitatsine, was a controversial Muslim preacher in Nigeria who founded the Yan Tatsine, a militant Quranist movement that first appeared around the early 1970s.[1][2][3]Maitatsine is a Hausa word meaning "the one who damns" and refers to his curse-laden public speeches against the Nigerian state.[4]
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Muhammad Marwa (died 1980), best known by his nickname Maitatsine, was a controversial Muslim preacher in Nigeria who founded the Yan Tatsine, a militant...
militant Quranist movement founded by the controversial Nigerian leader Maitatsine that first appeared around the early 1970s. The era of 1970-1980 witnessed...
by the cleric Mohammed Marwa Maitatsine, started in Kano in the late 1970s and operated throughout the 1980s. Maitatsine (since deceased) was from Cameroon...
during his time. The Kano 1980 riot was a riot in Kano, Nigeria, led by Maitatsine, a heretical preacher, and his followers. It was the first major religious...
major Islamic uprising led by Maitatsine and his followers, Yan Tatsine that led to several thousand deaths. After Maitatsine's death in 1980, the movement...
the numbers of Islamic extremism notably among them, the Boko Haram, Maitatsine, Darul Islam among others. These sects have sometimes resorted to the...
The Kano 1980 riot was a riot in Kano, Nigeria led by Maitatsine and his followers and the first major religious conflict in postcolonial Kano. Over 4...
("followers of Maitatsine") instigated riots that resulted in four or five thousand deaths. In the ensuing military crackdown, Maitatsine was killed, fuelling...
Islamic uprising led by Maitatsine (Mohammed Marwa) and his followers, Yan Tatsine that led to several thousand deaths. After Maitatsine's death in 1980, the...
and rebuilt with British sponsorship. In December 1980, adherents of Maitatsine, known as Yan Tatsine, launched an assault on the mosque's attendees during...
Musa Ali Suleiman (aka Musa Makaniki) is a Nigerian. A close disciple of Maitatsine, he emerged as a leader and successor after his death. Despite Mohammed...
(describing Sufis as unbelievers) to those of the heretical Islamic preacher Maitatsine. During Sanusi's six-year reign, The Emir reinvented himself as a charismatic...
Mohammed Marwa may refer to: Mohammed Buba Marwa, a Nigerian politician Maitatsine, born Mohammed Marwa, controversial Islamic scholar This disambiguation...
NSO's bigger intelligence gaffs was brought to light in the wake of the Maitatsine riots in Kano. The riots in which 4,177 people lost their lives were started...
later became, commander of the 146 Infantry Battalion that suppressed the Maitatsine religious riots. He later attended Junior Staff College, Warminister (1973)...
Government Reforms during 1982–1983. He also co-authored a report on the Maitatsine Religious Riots that formed the bedrock of the government's response to...
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