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Item Problems facing arabic learning in Nigerian private universities: Fountain University as a case study(Department of Religious Studies, Ekiti State University Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria, 2019-05) Ibrahim, L. A.; Alimi, S. A.Item Arabic education in Nigerian universities: the university of Ibadan as a model(Nigeria Association of Teachers of Arabic and Islamic Studies, (NATAIS), Ogun State, 2023-06) Ibrahim, L. A.This research aimed to shed light on the reality of Arabic education in Nigerian universities, with a special focus on what distinguishes the Department of Arabic Language and Islamic Studies at the University of Ibadan, which is considered the oldest scientific facility in this land. This excavation was carried out by investigating the stages through which Arabic activities passed through, and it explained its educational trends, which are not adopted by other Nigerian universities, especially with regard to teaching foreign languages. While the University of Ibadan was a British product, the establishment of subsequent universities was up to the Nigerian government. The research adopted the historical and inductive approach and concluded that the Nigerian universities that conduct Arabic programmes responded in their Arabic education to purely Arab trends, while the educational policy of the University of Ibadan was rooted in the ideologies of the colonialists since the dawn of its inception and continues despite the introduction of multiple developments to the university and its systems. This situation cannot be changed except by amending the university's educational policy left behind by the British colonization of the country and upon which the university was founded.Item Arabic as a viable tool for deepening western oriented knowledge: reading into the works of teachers of arabic in conventional universities, South-west, Nigeria(2020) Ibrahim, L. A.This paper explores the viability of Arabic as an efficacious tool for the acquisition of western oriented knowledge. This is done by investigating into the learning backgrounds of selected University teachers of Arabic in Yorubaland. The study, using both analytical and descriptive methods samples works of seven personalities. It is discovered that majority of the scholars under the study had no opportunity to attend pre-university schools but had to sacrifice their little time unconventionally to measure up with their peers with basic western education whose medium of instruction is English. Following their academic attainment, they contributed not only to da’wah, for which they trained hitherto, but also propagation of Yoruba culture through translation and publications. The paper concludes that their seamless intellectual migration is levered by their previous knowledge of the language of Quran.Item Arabic culture and human capital development: a study of the contributions of Ismail Taofiq AbdulGaniyy to the development of arabic calligraphy in Nigeria(A Joint Publication of the Alumni Association of Arabic Institute of Nigeria (AAAIN) and Islamic Studies Unit, Department of Religions. University of Ilonn, Ilorin, 2020) Ibrahim, L. A.; Alimi, S. A.Item An overview of the impact of arab civilizaton on yoruba culture in Nigeria(The Yoruba Studies Association of Nigeria (YSAN) c/o Department of Linguistics and African Languages University of Ibadan, 2023-01) Akewula, A. O.; Kamorudeen, B. K.Nigeria was a land where idol worship marked the religious life of the inhabitants. With the advent of Islam which came with its civilization, Nigerians’ faith, rituals, rites, practices and customs changed and impacted the Nigerian culture. Invariably, the contact of the Arabs with the people of Yorubaland in Nigeria brought about a new era in their beliefs. The Arabs who were mainly Muslims and with the focus to spread Islam preached assiduously against the syncretic religious practices of the Yoruba in the Southwestern region of Nigeria. There is no gainsaying the fact that every religion has its own unique identity characterized by traditions, values and norms that make it stand out. Over the centuries, we have observed that the southwestern Nigeria culture is gradually fading away as we adopt Arab civilization and this persists as days go by. The Arab civilization has influenced the Yoruba culture in different domains. Some of the impacts are noticeable in our education, language, borrowing, social activities, entertainment, traditional settings, marriage, naming, burial and funeral rites and widowhood. This paper employs historical method which attempts to examine how Arab civilization influenced Yoruba culture in the aforementioned domains including religion and devotional rites. It is our hope that some aspects of Yoruba Culture that are not inimical to Islamic teachings would be preserved to avoid becoming moribund.Item Thematic analysis in najat khayyat’s satashriqu al-shamsu yawma “one day the sun will rise”(Department of European Studies University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, 2015) Akewula, A. O.Writers such as Najat Khayyat present the status of women not as passive but as women who experience psychological retrieval and decide to reform themselves. Here, I try to analyse her story satashriqu al-shamsu yawma (One day The Sun will Rise) which was published in the year 2001 in mawsucat al-adab al-arabial- sucudi al-hadith. Her writing, in this story, skillfully operates on simple classical Arabic language, al-fushd. It is an enjoyable literary text, written in smooth, fluent and captivating manner. It poses questions about women’s freedom, hope and optimism.Item Social realism and commitment in husah al-tuwayjir’ wa tula sh‘an min jadidin(2014-04) Akewula, A. O.This paper examines the short story written by Husah al-Tuwayjir entitled " Wa (ala Sh ‘an niin jadidin (And My Hair Grew Long Again). The work belongs to that rare category of Saudi Arabian female fiction writers which offers female perspectives to the general corpus of modern Arabic literary repertoire. The paper explores the expansive articulation of female identity that is contested as a negative model in the story and also points to the social and feminist commitment in Arab-Muslim societies, especially in Saudi Arabia. The short fiction written by alTuwayjir, the paper argues, accounts for female experiences that reduce male-female relationships in the given social context to a fundamentally antagonistic one. Al-Tuwayjir’s story is unabashedly a case study of a more convinced but also matter of fact and multifaceted perspective on female experience in the Arabian Peninsula.Item Shaykh Awelenji’s contribution to the liberation and globalization of arabic intellectualism in yoruba land(Department of Arabic & Islamic Studies, University of Ibadan-Nigeria, 2018) Akewula, A. O.This paper examines the role of Shaykh Awelenje’s globalization of Arabic learning in the liberation process for Afro-Arabic learners in general and Yoruba in particular, using the internal and external experiences of this great scholar of the nineteenth century Nigeria as a case study. A distinct contribution of the paper to the current Arabic literature is many folds: 1) it conceptualizes Arabic learner’s liberation at the global level as a process driven by and contingent upon globalization of Arabic learning whose success is hinged on Arabic intellectual and scholarly legitimation and justification; and 2) it recognizes and demonstrates the liberating potential of globalization and identifies the challenges and limitations of these liberating forces in any attempt to liberate Arabic scholars globally. Drawing on both the case study and the literature on globalization and globalization of Arabic learning the paper concludes that: 1) globalization, driven by al-ilm dalatu-1- Mumin,ayna ma wajadahu akhadhahu, has created favorable conditions and opportunities for a global expansion of Arabic learning, aimed at learner’s liberation globally; 3) to achieve meaningful and realistic liberation of Arabic learners at the global level, liberation must be conceptualized as a long process that involves mutual understanding, education and ultimately, an intellectual revolution based on communicative events, triggered by literary scholarship of the type demonstrated in the life and works of Awlenje and 4) this process must identify and address specific differences among Arabic learners which stem, primarily, from culture, social class, ethnicity, race, nationality, religion, customs, tribal origin, social and political systems and the status of different nations within the so-called global intellectual society, as well as these nations status within the global, religion and political class systems.Item Self and other in umaymah al-khamis’ salma al umaniyyah(Department of Classics, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, 2014) Akewula, A. O.This paper explores patterns and perspectives to the construction of Self and Other in Saudi women’s fiction through a close reading of one the works of one of the earliest female writers to emerge in the Kingdom. A study of how this female writer arrived at the construction of the Saudi ‘Self’ in contradistinction to the other raises pertinent questions on notions of identities across cultures and civilizations. The paper examines series of ‘external Others’, established by the author; Umaymah Al-Khamis, whose own literary exposition and journeys enabled her to depict the question of national identity from a new standpoint. It also gives a picture of ‘internal Other’ of women who, for whatever reason, have perceived themselves as occupiers of the peripheries of the society. It draws its theoretical framework from Edward Said and Michel Foucault. In Salma Al-Umaniyyah, Umaymah Al-Khamis exemplifies the slippery texture of the Self and Other as well as its implications for socio-cultural harmony in human societies. The paper consequently contemplates the following questions: Why is it that the existing studies on Saudi Arabian literature, dominated by male writers interested in entrenching male dominance, have ignored the expression of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’ in the literary tradition of the Kingdom? What extent is a ‘Self’ and ‘Other’ factor in the production and consumption of fiction in Saudi Arabia? Why is it that, the author or Salma Ai-Umaniyyah is interested in ‘Self’ and ‘Other’ in her creativity?Item Grapho-phonological features in qumashah al-ulayan’s uyunu qadhrah (dirty eyes)(Global Journals, 2020) Akewula, A. O.This paper examines the linguistics features of Qumashah al-ulayan's text ‘Uyunu al-Qadhrah (Dirty Eyes) and how these linguistics features enhance meaning achievement. The paper argues that stylistics is a bridge between literary criticism and linguistics. This study, therefore, applies the insights and techniques of general linguistics to investigate the stylistic value of graphological and phonological devices as semantic signifiers in the text. The study deploys M.A.K Holiday's Systemic Functional model as the analytical tool to examine the use of graphology such as punctuations and paragraphing. Phonological devices like repetition, alliteration and rhyme in the text are also examined. The study posits that, at level of language study, graphological and phonological structure play a vital role in encoding the meaning and aesthetics of Qumashah al Ulayan’s text.