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Abu ibeji’s salafi movement and the muslim ummah in Ibadan
(The Department of Religious Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria., 2016-10) Noibi, M. A.; AbdulSalam, M. K.
Salafi movement developed in the second half the eighteenth century with the aim of redirecting Muslims to pristine Islam. However, some radical variants of Salafi movement which re-interpret Islamic religious teachings and constitute a challenge to other Muslims have emerged. Although scholars have focused on deviant Muslim groups, little has been done in the area of studying the composition and the ideological base of the Ibadan-based Abu Ibeji group; hence, the paper fills the gap by examining the ideological base of this radical Muslim group, as against established extant Islamic teachings, and their implications for other Muslims. The paper adopts content analysis approach and descriptive survey design. It analyses Islamic religious texts and ideas gleaned from in-depth interviews with selected members of the religious group, as well as the leadership of the Muslim community. Abu Ibeji group has recorded noticeable changes in established Islamic religious practices and principles such as prayer timing, gender rights, getting formal education, greetings and child naming ceremony among others. The group is not only overzealous but also plagued with incompetent leaders, ignorant followers and poverty. The group has the potential of developing into a terrorist organisation if something is not urgently done to curb it. There is the need for the Muslim community in Ibadan, in conjunction with the League of Imams and Alfas, to embark on an intensive reorientation and empowerment of the group members and, by extension, the general public.
Abu-l-Atàhiyyah ‘ashharu shu'ardii- zuhdfd ‘Asr al- abbàsI
(Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Ibadan, 1995-06) Shittu, S. A.
Adult education, Islam, and socio-economic development
(The Islamic Cultural Centre and London Central Mosque, London, 2017) Kareem, M. K.; Bankole, A. S.
Seeking education knows no bounds, age, gender and race in the ancient and modem world. In Islam, the first act (Q2:31-33) and Quranic revelation about 1437 years ago was on education and knowledge acquisition (Q96:l-5). Education is undeniably important and cannot be overemphasized in all the affairs of man, whether social, political, economic and spiritual. This paper, therefore, examines the concept, importance and role of adult education in general and Islamic perspective of adult education in particular relating these to socio-political and economic development. This is done with a view to hypothesizing that education, whether for adults or youths, dictates the level of social and economic development because one cannot give what one does not have. Thus, education can have no ending because it is life. Being a qualitative study, the researchers utilize descriptive methodology to analyze data on adult education to support the paper’s arguments. Findings reveal that Islam provides solutions educationally to resource constraints (human and material) which are the major determinants of the sustainability of social and economic development, the abandonment of which culminated in underdevelopment, crass illiteracy, poverty, ignorance and discouragement of scientific enquiry. The paper analyzed many Quranic verses that encourage man (as homo sapiens) to think, ponder, reflect and discover improved ways of socio-political and economic life for sustainable development (e.g. Q27:69 and Q29:20). The paper recommends properly targeted and delivered adult education to end social strife in today’s world.
Advanced study of muslim law
(Distance Learning Centre, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 2011) Kareem, M. K.
African muslim diaspora: the genesis of contemporary global islamic radicalism
(British Journal Publishing Incorporated, 2015) Abbas, L. O.
African diaspora is a phenomenal history of primordial occurrence ostensibly buried alive in a shallow grave. Its seeming resurrection in contemporary time has become a reality seeking a global attention. One of the flying wings of that reality which can never be clipped is religion. Being a diehard cultural pivot, religion connotes different things to different people at different times. It is the totality of life to the average living majority of African Muslims in diaspora. Religion, especially Islam, in contemporary time, has become a form of science that requires a concentrate study by all and sundry. This is because religion has graduated from its hitherto personal status into an interpersonal one with global security implications. Most people now see the unfortunate incident of terrorism that occurred in United States on September 11, 2001 as the genesis of the current global Islamic radicalism. This view totally contradicts historical facts as it undermines the real cause of today’s religious restiveness around the world. More than a decade before the US terrorism incident, there had been a signal pointing towards a possible religious turbulence at the dawn of the 21st century. But the signal was tactically ignored and treated as a non-issue. Today, many factors, like slave trade, religious dichotomy and economic insensitivity of former colonial masters still remind Africans in diaspora of their conditions. That reminder is like a whirl wind which should be calmed to allow peace in the 21st century. The modalities to adopt for it are some of the issues to be addressed in the body of this paper.
Afro-arab women and the media misrepresentation: a literary panacea
(Department of Communication and Language Arts, Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, 2017) Akewula, A. O.
Over five decades, there has been a steady growth of interest in studying the representations of Afro-Arab women in media as shown by the increasing number of journal articles of scholars have who have abundantly discussed about the ugly images of these women that have been shown in western media for years. However, research lacks explanation and sufficing solutions to ameliorate such images. Therefore, this paper is an attempt to facilitate the understanding of Afro-Arab women images drawing on the bulk of the theorizing and explain how literature can help undo the mischiefs of misrepresentation. Moreover, it also explores the ways in which the teaching and the promotion of Arabic fiction can help dismantle the misrepresentation of Afro-Arab women in the Western media. Particularly, it demonstrates how Egyptian fiction writer Ikbal Baraka's Li-nazallasdiqa' ila-I-abad(Let's Remain Friends Foreverjcan be used to correct misrepresentations of Afro-Arab women that appeared in media for a long time.
Al-Amthàl alYorubàwiyyah Min Wasà ’ilil- Ihyà ’ Lituràthil Lughat Wath-Thaqàfah Fi Naijiriyyah:Diràsatun Tahliliyyah
(Faculty of Arts and Humanities Kogi State University Anyigba, Nigeria, 2012) Shittu, S. A.
Al-ghuluwu fi al-amsal al-arabiy of postproverbials in modem arabic literature and perceptive transformations in afro-arab culture
(2019) Akewula, A. O.
Al-Ghuluwufi al-amsal al-arabiy (Postproverbial) is a new trend in modem Arabic studies. It is a way to gain the perceptions of learners of the language into Afro-Arabic and Yomba cultures in contemporary times. Through the learning of the subject matter, University of Ibadan students of Arabic Language and Literature explore how much common philosophy is shared between postproverbial expressions in Arabic and Yoruba languages. Afro-Arabic postproverbial demonstrates the trends of modernity within the culture. It absorbs and transforms wisdom accumulated over the few years with the experience of students in their various localities. This paper investigates the exposure to postproverbiality in Arabic among the students of Arabic language and literature who are predominantly Yoruba in the University of Ibadan and how the practice of postproverbials transforms their perceptions and values of Yoruba and Afro- Arab cultural concepts. Thus, two questions are raised: to what extent does the use of postproverbials in the Arabic literature course in the University of Ibadan shed light on Yoruba cultural aspects not regularly covered in Arabic Proverbs? How does the use of postproverbials in the Arabic literature course promote a new understanding among the students and make them discover and reassess their values and preferences in the modem time? The theoretical framework of the paper is adopted from A. Raji-Oyelade’s “Postproverbials in Yomba Culture: A Playful Blasphemy”. The result of this study indicates that students employed their basic knowledge of Arabic language, coupled with their Yomba cultural background, to re-create a number of postproverbial texts within the context of Arabic culture. It also exhibits their level of consciousness in the modem times.
Al-Jihad al-T'alimi- in search of a united front in Educational Jihad and the experience of Yoruba Muslims
(2007) Uthman, I. O.
This paper focuses on the early Muslim/Christian encounters in Yorubaland in Nigeria and how Yoruba Muslims were united in their intellectual and missionary activities in their quest to stop the conversion of Muslims by early Christian missionaries. The paper traces the origin and development of Islamic organizations in Nigeria to the desires of Muslims to be educated without being converted to Christianity by missionaries who pioneered the modern school system in Nigeria. While the Muslim/Christian encounter has on many occasions, been characterized by antagonistic, bitter and aggressive relationship, it has also witnessed periods of peaceful interfaith coexistence and competition. This paper also examines the attitudes of Yoruba Muslims as exponents of interfaith intellectual friendship and competition towards Christian educational evangelism in Nigeria both in the colonial and post-colonial eras. It argues that this Yoruba disposition is the outcome of their united perception of the concept of Jihad in Islam. Finally, the paper reveals the need for Islamic organizations that have founded Islamic schools to be actively involved in sustaining this ummatic spirit of unity by continuously upholding the Yoruba Muslim interfaith intellectualism.
Al-Mutanabbi’s satiric poems on kafur; a content analysis
(Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Ibadan, 2008) Shittu, S. A.
Al-suwarul-balàghiyyah (al-tashbih) fil-amthàl al-yorubàwiyyah amthàl al-yorubàwiyyah
(Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Maiduguri, 2013-01) Shittu, S. A.
Al-Tahdiyatid-Al-AlmaniyyahWat- Taqnolojiyyah lil- Lughatil-Arabiyyah Fi Naijiriyyah
(2013) Shittu, S. A.
Analysis of content and style of al-Ilòry’s works on sufism: falsafatul-wilàyah and tawjihud-da wah wa du àt - as case studies
(The Nigerian Centre for Arabic Research, 2012) Shittu, S. A.
An analytical study of yoruba proverbs of islamic origin
(2011) Shittu, S. A.
Annotated translation of al-madkhal fi ‘ilmil-farà'id (a simplined guide to the islamic law of inheritance)
(2016-07) Shittu, S. A.
Annotated Translation of Al-Madkhal fi'Umil-Farà'id (A simplified guide lo the Islamic law of inheritance), a book Written by Al-Sayyid ‘Ali bn Abi Bakr Al-Muthanna bn Alhaj Abdullahi Nyass Al- Kawlakhl Al-Tijani; May Allah be pleased with all of them (Amin). Many nuclear and extended Muslim families are in disarray and live in fracas after the deceased of a member due to the sharing of his or her property meant for the heirs. Therefore, some issues arise from inheritance provoke emotions and escalate irrational behaviour among the heirs. Consequently, many peaceful homes were turned into chaos be it the wife or husband, father or mother, son or daughter. The book simplified the proportion allotted to each of the beneficiaries in the family. It will definitely guide young and old English audience on how the property of a departed soul could be shared in accordance with the sources of Islamic law. Leading questions were supplied at the end of the book which could be regarded as a self assessment for the reader.
Anti-corruption preaching /teaching manual for muslims in Nigeria
(The Inter-Faith Anti-Corruption advisory Committee of the Economic and Financial Crimes Comission, Nigeria, 2013) Oyewole, Y.; Abbas., F.; Kareem, M. K.
Application and practice of the principles of Da 'wah in the age of globalization
(2011) Uthman, I. O.
Today despite the scientific and technological strides that have turned the world into a village, the long cherished values of a true traditional village life are rarely found in the prevailing global village. The fact seems to be that while human scientific and technological advancements have made life on earth more convenient and comfortable, it has failed to make it more decent, peaceful and sustainable. While studies abound on how the Islamic socioeconomic, political and ethical teachings can help re-direct the future of globalisation technologies towards a sustainable and peaceful world there are only few works on how the principles of Da‘wah intersect with such issues like multiculturalism, pluralism and inter-religious dialogue to build a more peaceful multicultural, multi-religious and equitable global society. This paper, therefore, examines how Da‘wah can be employed in promoting a global peace culture among the diverse groups in today’s world. The study discusses the involvement of Islamic organisations in inter-religious dialogues and situates it within the contemporary Islamic understanding of the Da‘wah principles and how these principles can help to militate against religious intolerance and the unwholesome effects of the prevailing cultural, religious and other clashes. The paper finally concludes that these Da‘wah principles are useful and desirable for improving upon and sustaining not only Muslim non-Muslim relations but also Muslim Muslim relations.
The application of Al-Uqubat in the contemporary society: a re-examination using the maqasid Al-Shari'ah based schemes
(Serials Publications Frequency, 2011-06) Oloso, K. K.; Uthman, I. O.
This paper focuses on the complexity of the implementation of the Islamic criminal law with particular reference to the feminist view that the Islamic law is “the cornerstone of the system of male privilege set up in Islam” and that the preservation of this system of Islamic law in most Muslim countries signals the existence of anti-human rights practices that uphold not only oppression and domination of women but also of non-Muslims and even ordinary Muslims. Nevertheless, there still appears to be a serious misinterpretation of the Islamic penal code. This misinterpretation is due to the failure of Muslim scholars over the years to question the application of the Islamic penal law system in many Muslim countries, including Nigeria in line with the maqasid al-shari‘ah (the ultimate objectives of the Islamic law). This paper will ground itself upon maqasid al-shari‘ah in order to differentiate between the authentic scope and application of the Islamic criminal law and what is currently operational in the Muslim world.
An appraisal of islamic banking movement in Nigeria
(Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Ibadan, 2006-06) Noibi, M. A.
The study intends to expose the various moves made by Nigerian Muslims aimed at living by the Shari'ah in their financial transactions. In doing justices to it, the study reviews the historical development of banking services in the country and also the Islamic stand on Riba (interest) and Garar (speculation). It also examines some judicial cases aimed at exposing the attachment of Muslims to Islamic financial system and moves at realizing it. The various moves aimed at Islamising the Nigerian financial system was also traced and recommendations preferred towards improving the Islamic banking climate in Nigeria.
An appraisal of sufism in selected works of Dr Dawood Ahmad Adekilekun Tijani
(Digital Quest Publishing House Limited, 2016) Kareem, M. K.