Abstract The Qur’àn had played a great role on thè languages of thè world, and thè Yoruba language (Southwestem Nigeria) is not an exemption. The paper looked into thè Qur’àn with its characteristic features, its influence on thè Arabie language and thè view of scholars on its tra slation.lt studied thè rhetorical application of al-Mushàkalah (Homonyms) in thè Qur'àn translated in o Yoruba Language. Al-Mushàkalah as a topic under thè branch of Arabie Rhetoric, known £S al-B...
Abstract 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. Relig...
INTRODUCTION "Whoseoever does not show happiness for the sake of Muhammad [Peace be upon him), has never seen the true happiness”1 (Muhammad Khlid Thabit)
ABSTRACT 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 ...
Abstract Since the introduction of Islamic banking in Nigeria, the importance of secularism has been the object of discussion, with the general belief by a large number of people that Islamic banking will Islamise Nigeria and disrupt its secularity. It is against this backdrop that this paper discusses the issue of secularism in relation to Islamic banking in Nigeria. Specifically, it examines the role of religion particularly the main ones i.e Islam and Christianity as an agent in the contex...
Abstract - While Sayyid Qutb is an acclaimed Islamist and leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, that he has not been fully understood is confirmed by the persistent view that he laid the foundation for the prevailing ‘Islamic terror and Islamist fundamentalism’ all over the globe. Though there is a panoply of works that have attempted to explain and clarify this misunderstanding of Qutb’s Islamic revivalism and reformism through a study of his writings and works yet the argument th...
ABSTRACT The paper examines the impact of muslim organization on the life of muslims and islam in Nigeria.
Contrary to the traditional modernist theories that development and progress can only be achieved through the western secular modernizing project
ABSTRACT This paper is hinged on the following propositions: that any inquiry into the problematic of Islam in contemporary Africa must engage, not only with how the past has shaped the present, but equally with how the latter would likely shape and, in turn, be -shaded by possibilities in the future; that contemporary challenges facing Islam in Africa nests, in the main, in the disconnect between Islam in the text and the fissures in the contexts of Muslim realities all over the world.
On 12 January 2010, the world witnessed the complete devastation of Haiti, this hemisphere's first black independent nation.
ABSTRACT Annotated Translation of Al-Madkhal fi ilmil fara'id
ABSTRACT This paper inquires into the personality , identity and work of the contemporary Muslim woman activist Zaynab al-Ghazali al-Jubayll (1917-2005).
ABSTRACT Arab as a tribe is generally known to have originated and lived in what is known as Arabian Peninsular. Its borders later extended to what was previously known as Mesopotamia, Assyria and Phoenicia. P.K. Hitti would though believe the reverse.1 In the medieval period, the emergence of Islam in the Arabian Peninsular as a religion and ideology, made the Arab conquerors of most of the then civilized world. Arab occupies a territory larger than the United States, the region is strategic...
ABSTRACT Any education which does not immediately benefit a person either in finding employment or to improve his/her living conditions, would not attract public attention. Therefore, Arabic education in Nigeria particularly for women should be designed so as to lead to useful work life. Arabic, being a Semitic language of major religion and culture which demands some skills and lengthy duration before its learners could attain an appreciable level for useful work life in Nigeria .This prereq...
ABSTRACT Islam preceded Christianity in the entity now called Nigeria by 300 years (Fafunwa, 1982, p. 70). Islam was brought by the Berbers of North Africa to the West African country around the early centuries of its advent in Arabia and was already flourishing well by the eleventh century. By the time the Mali Empire began to decline, it was to Nigeria especially the Northern part, such as Kano, Katsina and Zaria that many of its scholars went to settled. The Yoruba in Southern Nigeria stil...