The paper is an attempt to understand the role culture and tradition play in the life of the Muslim woman in North-WesternNigeria with Katsina state as a case in point. The paper stresses that under the guise of Islam the Muslim woman has gone through a lot of hardship. This is as a result of the distortions of the teaching of Islam with regards to the position of the woman in a Muslim community. The paper also highlights the fact that the nature of the spread of the religion and

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... on of the provision of the Shariah was responsible for relegating the woman to the background and exposing her to oppression.