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Item A contextual study of ‘awdatu majd al-markaz of ‘abdul-wāhid jumu‘ah ariyibi(2008) Omofoyewa, K. A.The basic necessity for literary composition among the Yorubas according to 'Abdul-Rahmon was essentially to teach the value of their religion. He asserts that since poetry is generally believed to have an emotional effect and to be easier to memorise than prose, it became an effective means especially for didactic purposes 1. An eminent Muslim scholar, 'Ādam al-'Ilūrī also maintains in his writings that some of the factors which make versification of prose works relevant to Yoruba scholars are: Preaching, guidance and eulogy of the prophet (SAW) 2. Although, it is not an easy task to count early Yoruba scholars who have tried their hands on pedagogical Arabic poems on a finger tip but notwithstanding, effort shall be made to mention some. 'Abdul-Rahmon, in his thematic and stylistic study of Arabic poetry in Ibadan (1876-1976) states scholars like: Shaykh 'Ahmad Rufa'ī Bello (Oke-Are), Shaykh Hārun Kātibī, Shaykh Mudathir 'Abd-al-Salām, Shaykh Sanūsī Alaka, to mention but few 3. Likewise, 'Abūbakre (2004) also enumerates among others scholars like: Tāj-al-'Adab 4 , 'Ādam 'Abdullah al-Ilūrī, and 'Ahmad Būsairī 5. In Ilorin also, the following are not scholars without merits: 'Ahmad Yarima, 'Ahmad Belgore (d.1913), and 'Ahmad b. 'Abī-Bakr Ikokoro (b. 1870) whose magnum opus is the book entitled "Akhbār al-Qurūn min 'Umarā Ilūrī"-centuries report about Ilorin Emirs 6 .Item A literary exposition of the sources of arabic proverbs(International Organization of Scientific Research (IOSR), 2013) Omofoyewa, K. A.Proverbs excited the interest of the learned right from the inception of Arabic literature; historians and philologists vied with one another in collecting and explaining them. Indeed, to their works this generation owe most of the legendary and historical materials. This paper, therefore, examines the main sources of Arabic proverbs vis-à-vis the Qur’an, the hadith of the Prophet (PHOH) and the gamut of Arabic literature, with a view to establishing their literary worth and values. It argues that familiarity with the background of the proverbial expressions is very essential to comprehension since a number of them are so tied to the stories and tales behind them.Item 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.Item Abu-l-Atàhiyyah ‘ashharu shu'ardii- zuhdfd ‘Asr al- abbàsI(Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Ibadan, 1995-06) Shittu, S. A.Item 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.Item Advanced study of muslim law(Distance Learning Centre, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 2011) Kareem, M. K.Item Advanced study of Şawm-Ḥajj(National open University, 2020) Kewuyemi, K.; Omofoyewa, K. A.Item 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.Item 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.Item 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.Item 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.Item 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.Item Al-Mutanabbi’s satiric poems on kafur; a content analysis(Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Ibadan, 2008) Shittu, S. A.Item Item 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.Item Al-Tahdiyatid-Al-AlmaniyyahWat- Taqnolojiyyah lil- Lughatil-Arabiyyah Fi Naijiriyyah(2013) Shittu, S. A.Item An Analytical study of al-maqamah al-mushajariyah in al-Ilory’s maqamat. المقامة المشجرية في مقامات الإلوري:دراسة تحليلية(2014) Adetunji, I. أديتنجي ، عزالدينThis research deals with a new topic which had not been favorably studied before, and by the time several studies were being written about Arabs Maqamats like those of al-Hamadhani's Maqamah, al-Hariri's Maqamah and etc. On this, Nigeria maqamats are still in need of study being a virgin work in Nigerian literary output. Therefore, this work is aiming to study the literary and critical study of Maqamah al-Mushajariyyah in Al-IIory’s Maqamah of Sheikh Muhammad –l- Awwal Abdul Salam known as Sahibul-Qur’an. Before delving in to the main topic, this research would firstly focuses on the meaning of Maqamah and its significances, likewise it would discuss briefly about the historical background of Sahibul-Qur’an.Item An appraisal of the use and presentation of arabic and yoruba proverbs in selected works of art(European Scientific Institute (ESI), 2013) Omofoyewa, K. A.Proverb is a global phenomenon. For its inestimable values, it means many things to different people. The Arabs call it ‘Misbāhu al-Kalām’ (the lamp of speech) while the Yoruba refer to it as ‘Ẹsin ọ̀rọ̀’ (the horse of speech). Virtually, all nations around the world have ways and means of preserving their proverbs from one generation to the other. The Arabs and the Yoruba are not exemptions in this regard. This paper examines how Arabic and Yoruba proverbs are being perpetuated for posterity in selected works of art like, prose, poetry and music. This invariably adds to the elegance and the mastery of the users’ language. As regards the use and presentation of Arabic proverbs, the paper draws samples from the work of a Nigerian Arabic writer, Kamāldeen Balógun, as well as various poetical compositions of the Arabs. Furthermore, it draws samples from the work of another Nigerian Yoruba prose writer, Ọládèjọ Òkédìji, and the musical works of a Sákárà artiste, Sànúsí Àká. The paper ends with some recommendations.Item An Inquiry into the lexical affinities between Arabic and Yorùbá languages(International Organization of Scientific Research (IOSR), 2014) Omofoyewa, K. A.There are indeed some evidences of interplay between Arabic and Yorùbá languages in spite of the distance in space between the two cultures. This invariably shows the universality of language which erodes the constraints of distance and time on social organisation and interaction. The nexus between both languages is evident in the multitude of Arabic loan words and expressions found in Yorùbá language. This paper, therefore, gives an insightful examen of the Arabic and Yorùbá languages, their speakers, as well as the varieties of both languages, vis-à-vis the standard and colloquial ones. It also probes into the influence of Arabic on Yorùbá language and culture, and equally highlights the Arabic loan words in Yorùbá language in a bid to establishing the relationship between the two languages. The paper employed the sampling method and the data were content analysed.Item 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.