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Item Feminist insiders-outsiders: muslim women in Nigeria and the contemporary feminist movement(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009) Uthman, I. O.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 Sufi quietism between Al-Ghazzali's Islamic philosophy and the Jihad of Uthman ibn Fudi(2008) Uthman, I. O.This paper studies the Jives and teachings of two leading Sufi scholars, Imam Abu Hamid Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Al-Ghazzali (450/1058-505/1111) and Shaykh 'Uthman Ibn Fudi (1754-1817) in respect of the belief that Suli s generally live a quietist life. It focuses on the mass quietist appeal of the Sufi movement by studying Al-Ghazzali's recourse to Islamic Philosophy in his mystical interpretation and experience and the Sufi Da'wah and Jihad of 'Uthman Ibn Fudi in pre-colonial Nigeria. Against the above background of the Sufi doctrines of peaceful and quietist life, the paper shows how both the Sufi conceptions of Islamic philosophical mysticism and jihad sought to bring about an Islamic reformation both in space and time through a peaceful movement. The paper offers a justification for this Sufi quietist practice and demonstrates that while Sufis uphold the Islamic philosophical virtues of being at peace with all that is around them, they also do rise up in revolution by physically defending themselves when the need arises.Item Muslim women in Nigeria. The position of FOMWAN and lessons from Islamic Malaysia(2009) Uthman, I. O.Item Feminism in postmodern society: an Islamic perspective(lnternational lslamic University, Malaysia, 2005-12) Uthman, I. O.In this research, an attempt is made to focus on the real nature of the challenges of postmodern feminism and its implications on not only Muslim women but also on the family and society at large. The research also examines the typology of this phenomenon known as Islamic feminism to reveal how some Muslim women are now confronting postmodern feminism in today's global village. The goal here is to provide a basis for exploring the main dimensions of postmodern feminism as central to practices in the Muslim world. It is hoped that this can stimulate Islamic organizations to address these dimensions in formulating their policies on women. The research will therefore reply to western feminist writers who unjustly believe that Islam treats women with utter scorn, injustice and humiliation. It will also demonstrate that Islam and what is now known as Islamic feminism are not incompatible if the eradication of women's oppression is the primary aim of feminism. It is not contradictory to Islamic tenets of equity, equality, and justice for all races, groups and sexes. The study concludes that labeling any political and intellectual activisms in support of Muslim women's public roles in society "Islamic feminism" will show the difference between Islam, a religion that preaches moderacy in any human endeavor, and the extremism of secular postmodern feminism.Item The renaissance of muslim women: an identity of authentic islamic feminism in the Middle East(Postgraduate Students' Society and Centre for Postgraduate Studies, International Islamic University, Malaysia, 2005) Uthman, I. O.This study which employs both a textual and comparative approach seeks to explore the recent developments and conditions of Muslim women in some selected Middle Eastern countries. It traces the origins and development of Islamic feminism and seeks to understand the place and image of women portrayed by Islamic feminists as they contradict those of secular feminists and their feminist aspirations. The study reveals that though today, the Muslim woman has come to represent the ultimate symbol of oppression, a depiction that has been exacerbated by the mistaken belief in feminist discourse that the only true model of emancipation is the Western model; yet, there has arisen a growing elite of Muslim women who choose to reject this secular representation as alien to their perception of Islam. To these women who believe strongly in the egalitarian teachings of Islam, it is possible to re-establish gender empowerment and equity in today's Muslim societies as done by the Prophet and his early successors to match the vision of the Islam that is projected in the egalitarian teachings of Islam. This study then concludes that the feminist aspirations of these women, especially in respect of what they perceive as a destructive and overzealous implementation of the shari'ah law in Muslim societies, can be checked not by going outside Islam to establish gender justice, empowerment and freedom for women but by supporting the Islamic aspirations for the genuine emancipation and empowerment of women in all ramifications within only Islamic matricesItem The roles of Arabic & Islamic studies in a secular society(2002-09) Uthman, I. O.Item The Purdah Saga and the muslim woman(Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Port Harcourt, 2001) Uthman, I. O.The Purdah saga is an age-long issue in islam, which has generated a lot of controversies. A major problem posed by this saga is the impression that muslim women are barred from outdoor activities or that they must cover their faces when they appear in public. This paper therefore focuses on the Islamic verdict on purdah and the submissions are based on the absolute sources of the Holy Quran and SunnahItem The problems of child abuse and Islamic solutions(Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Port Harcourt, 2000-03) Uthman, I. O.Item A Critical evaluation of Ghazzalian and Kantian notions of mysticism and intuition: an Islamic Perspective(Department of Philosophy, Allame Tabataba'i University, Tehran, 2005) Uthman, I. O.This research is an attempt to study the relationship between the Ghazzalian and Kantian thoughts on mysticism and intuition from an Islamic perspective. This study is intelligible when it is remembered that after Al-Ghazzali, mysticism in Islam was not the same again and even though. Kant was not a Mystic in the real sense of the word but his mystical notions appear similar to that of al-Ghazzali on many points especially on "mystical metaphysics. The study begins by tracing the concept and development of mysticism in Islam. It also enumerates some of the Muslim scholars who brought about reconciliation between mainstream Islam or orthodoxy and philosophical Sufism. One of whom and certainly the most famous and acknowledged in the West is al-lmam al Ghazzali. In addition, the study has traced the historical background of both the Ghazzalian and Kantian philosophical and metaphysical thoughts vis-it-vis mysticism and intuition. It also unravels both the post Kantian and Ghazzalian trends in mysticism and intuition. In doing, it has attempted to explain some metaphysical concepts germane to their thoughts on mysticism as popularly understood in the Ghazzalian and Kantian schools. It finally ends up revealing that today mysticism has become a euphemism for both laxity and licentiousness. Most mystics today hide behind their esoteric teachings to call for total or unwarranted liberalization of religious observances in the name of promoting religious understanding. As a result, there is perennial conflict in the philosophical mystical camps. The study therefore opines that it is the premonition of this problem that accounted for Kantian . skepticism and Ghazzalian demolition of philosophy.