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Gender oppression: Muslim women and post divorce issues in Nigeria
(Anyigba Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 2005) Hussain-Abubakar, Sherifat
Islamic mode of dressing for female as a globalised socio-cultural concept
(Alore : Ilorin Journal of the Humanities, 2006) Hussain-Abubakar, Sherifat
Internet services and the challenges of Muslim adolescents
(Al-Fikr Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 2007) Hussain-Abubakar, Sherifat
The Internet is one of the units of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). It provides various services including: Electronic Mail (e-mail), Search Engines and File Transfer. This technological advancement poses a lot of challenges to Muslim adolescents. The paper focuses on the Search Engine Service of the internet and the varieties of uses it can be subjected to. The Islamic provision on child upbringing was used as a standard for measuring the pros and cons of this information service. The paper established that Search Engine Service enables the user to have access to unrestricted information and entertainments which expose them to trivialities and obnoxious experiences that are condemned by Islam.
Semantics of the Qur’anic Weltanschauung: A Critical Analysis of Toshihiko Izutsu’s Works
(American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 2009) Abdul Kabir Hussain Solihu
This paper examines the structural semantic approach based on the theory of linguistic relativity to scriptural language as exemplified in Toshihiko Izutsu’s studies of the Qur’anic weltanschauung. According to this theory, each language contains a particular worldview that causes its speakers to view the world in a way different from the speakers of other languages. By an analytical study of the semantic fields and contextual use of the Qur’an’s key conceptual terms, Izutsu explores the semantic factors believed to have been employed by the Qur’an in its Islamization of the jahili (pre-Islamic Arab) worldview. Such an approach exhibits that the Qur’an’s linguistic vision of reality is internally coherent but culturally and historically conditioned. Following a textual analysis, this study critically examines, from both an ethical and a theological perspective, the semantic theory that Izutsu applies to the Qur’an’s key concepts in his two works: God and Man in the Qur’an and Ethico-Religious Concepts in the Qur’an. The objective is to investigate the extent to which semantic analysis could enrich our understanding of the ontological problems raised in the Qur’an.
An appraisal of the activities of Muslim women in Ilorin during Ramadan: The Islamic perspective
(Al-Asaalah Journal, 2011) Hussain-Abubakar, Sherifat
Revisiting Khilafah: The Role of Nonpolitical Social Factors in Good Governance
(Islam and Civilisational Renewal, 2014) Abdul Kabir Hussain Solihu
Khilafah has been a symbol of the Muslim political system and Islamic politics has often been identified as Khilafah in the same structure it took form in the past. This study argues that Muslims exhausted their energy on political discourse at the expense of other factors which are important for preparing the ground for political maturity. An attempt is made to exhibit normativeness of the Islamic political principles and values and the historicity of the form (Caliphate) it has acquired over the course of Islamic history. Furthermore, greater emphasis is placed on the broader, civilisational sense of Khilafah under which the political sense of Khilafah (Caliphate) is subsumed. In doing so, the study aims to contribute to the discourse on the revitalisation of the contemporary Muslim political culture but through non-political means.
Christian Translations of the Qur'an into Yoruba and Their Historical Background
(Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 2015) Abdul Kabir Hussain Solihu; Abdulganiy Akorede Abdulhameed
This study considers the emergence of the Christian-led Yoruba translations of the Qur’an in south-western Nigeria. The proliferation of translations of religious texts played a significant role in Christian engagement with Islam in Africa in the nineteenth century. With their contact with the European Christians in Sierra Leone following the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, a sizable number of Yoruba recaptives returned to Yorubaland as missionaries and embarked on translating religious texts into the Yoruba language as part of Christian mission. In 1906, the Reverend M. S. Cole published the first Yoruba translation of the Qur’an, which was also the first translation into an African language. In 1965, E. K. Akinlade published the second Yoruba translation of the Qur’an. This article relates the Christian-led Yoruba translations to a larger scheme of the Christian missionary engagement with Islam and the Yoruba Muslims on a scriptural basis, which was inaugurated by Bishop Crowther in the second half of the nineteenth century. It examines the theological bases and historical circumstances that led to the publication of the early Yoruba translation of the Qur’an. The article then provides an overview of the works in an attempt to identify their aid materials and the motives for the translations.
The Earliest Yoruba Translation of the Qur'an: Missionary Engagement with Islam in Yorubaland
(Journal of Qur’anic Studies, 2015) Abdul Kabir Hussain Solihu
This study analyses the first translation of the meaning of the Qur'an into Yoruba, a language spoken mainly in south-western Nigeria in West Africa. Yorubaland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was a theatre of serious engagement between Muslims and Christian missionaries, during which a proliferation of translations of religious texts played a major role. Long before the translation of the Qur'an was accepted by most Muslims in Africa, Christian missionaries had taken the initiative in rendering the Qur'an into local African languages. The first known translation of the Qur'an into any African language was Reverend M.S. Cole's Yoruba translation, which was first published in 1906, and republished in 1924 in Lagos, Nigeria. This ground breaking work, written primarily for a Christian audience, was not widely circulated among Yoruba scholarly circles and thus did not generate significant scholarly discourse, either at the time or since. This study, which is primarily based on the 1924 edition of Reverend Cole's translation, but also takes into account other materials dealing with the Muslim-Christian engagement in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Yorubaland, examines the historical background, motives, and semantic structure of the earliest Christian missionary-translated Yoruba Qur'an.
Ilorin women and family life in retrospect: Implication for the future
(Ilorin: Ilorin Emirate Descendants Progressive Union (IEDPU), 2015) Hussain-Abubakar, Sherifat
Implications of Ethno-Relegious conflict and Inter- groups relations in Nigria on National Developments: A peneacea from Islam
(Hamdard Islamicus, 2016) Prof Abdus-Samii Imam Arikewuyo
Viability of Socio-Economic Insurance Provisions for a Woman in Islam: Focus On Mahr and Nafaqah
(Journal of Islamic Studies and Culture, 2016) Abdus-Sami Imam Arikewuyo
History bears the fact that universally women and children are the most vulnerable members in the human society. Notwithstanding the role of the women folk in the establishment, nurture and development of the society, gender bias is incontestable whereby women are bedeviled with multi-farious social and economic travails. Islam took the bull by the horn to arrest this precarious situation by according women an esteem position in the scheme of things. Whereas a woman was considered as a mere chattel and source of sexual gratification for the man at her own expense, Islam conceives her as a dignified personality whose integrity must be safe-guarded by the masculine gender of superior or collateral status. This philosophy became entrenched primarily in the Islamic family structure whereby the law assigns the superintendent position to the male as a father, brother, uncle or anyone in similar category. Moreover, in the matrimonial setting, the husband is obligated to provide sustenance for the wife and the children. This paper therefore researches on the competence of this arrangement in providing socio-economic insurance for a woman as the major beneficiary of this welfare scheme in Islam. As a field and library research, the study involved interview, questionnaires and literary appraisal. Major findings indicated that where the principles of Islam are embraced wholesome, women were fully guaranteed of survival and protected from socio-economic menace. Apparently, violations of the Islamic principles on maintenance of women indulged some of them in unimaginable socio economic immoralities. Hence, the paper concludes with some recommendations.
Routes to Remembering: Lessons from al Huffaz
(Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2016) Mariam Adawiah Dzulkifli; Abdul Wahab bin Abdul Rahman; Jamal Ahmed Bashier Badi; Abdul Kabir Hussain Solihu
Al Quran is the basis for all aspects of Muslim’s life. These words of Allah are to guide us in every phase of our journey to become ummatan wasata including teaching and learning. Remembering is essential in one’s attempt to learn. Remembering involves one core cognitive process known as memory. This research aims to explore and form a better understanding on the cognitive basis underlying human memory, so as to help in optimizing one’s own ability to learn. We have chosen to study the memory of Al Huffaz, i.e. those who memorize the Quran because of their exceptional memory performance to commit such a volume in their memory. In the Western literatures, the most influential research on people with superior memory performance focused mainly on chess players (Chase & Simon, 1973). In our context Al Huffaz are considered as people with superior memory performance due to the greater body of knowledge, the possession of accurate memory and superior ability to store information in memory. The exceptional memory ability of the Al Huffaz was investigated via a detailed and structured interviews and a survey. The findings from the interviews strengthened the involvement of several control processes such as rehearsal, motivation or interest and self-discipline. In addition, the findings from the survey revealed that the best predictor to memorizing ability is the self- efficacy and goal setting behavior. The understanding on this cognitive basis underlying human memory will definitely help to develop ummatan wasata mentioned in the Quran become a reality.
Islamic worldview on justice and polygyny among contemporary Yoruba Muslim families in Nigeria
(Malaysia: Persatuan Ulama Malaysia, 2016) Hussain-Abubakar, Sherifat
In Islam, justice ('adl) denotes fairness in dealings; equilibrium in the distribution of rights and duties; a moral virtue and rectitude. Allah, in numerous verses of the Qur'an, unequivocally commanded mankind to be just in all dealings, while He also vehemently condemns any element of injustice and oppression. The legality of Islamic polygyny is unambiguously premised on justice. Ability of prospective polygynist to be just among his wives has enticed universal debate and divergent positions among Islamic scholars in particular. Some Islamic/Muslim countries outlawed polygyny on the ground of inability to do justice among wives; others permitted it through regulations, while some left it to personal discretion. Nigerian Muslims fall into the last category of subjecting polygyny to the hand of men. This study explores the Islamic concept of justice in Muslim Polygyny in Nigeria, putting into perspective the benefits, harms inherent in the practice and the implication of regulating Islamic polygyny rather than banning or leaving it to individual discretion. The study is descriptive. Interview is the major research instrument used in the study. The study reveals that while some Nigeria polygynous Muslim men abide by the Islamic provisions, others apparently disregard justice through their reckless and indiscriminate practice of the institution, the resultant effect of which is disintegration and destabilization of families; breeding of persistent acrimony, chaos etc. Recommendations that will enhance the practice of justice by polygynous Muslims in Nigeria and other Muslim societies are given in the paper.
Missing links between the Islamic marital vision and the Muslim practice among the Yoruba in Nigeria
(Journal of Education and Social Sciences, 2016) Hussain-Abubakar, Sherifat
Marriage is ordained in Islam to stabilize individual and the society. It is premised on tranquility, love and mercy that should permeate the Muslim matrimony. However, reverse is the case in many contemporary Muslim marriages among the Yoruba in Nigeria. Many homes have been turned into abode of tension, pain, grief, and regret. Rather than love and compassion, hatred, mistrust and distress now characterize family life with their attendant social and health hazards. This scenario depicts some missing links between the Islamic vision of the home and the reality of Muslim homes. It is these links that this study hopes to examine among the Yoruba Muslim couples of Nigeria. The study is descriptive, while interview is the major research instrument. The paper reveals that couple’s lack of commitment, mismanagement of marital discord, mishandling of polygyny, extended family interference and economic predicament are major causes of the failure of Muslim marriages among the Yoruba. However, it is suggested that if couples are committed to their marital pledges as prescribed by Islam, other problems are surmountable and peace, love and care would resurface as envisioned by Islam.
The paradox of female headship of Muslim families in contemporary Ilorin metropolis
(KWASU Journal of Religious Studies, 2017) Hussain-Abubakar, Sherifat
Ali Miqdad Ali
(2017-07-21) The Gazelle, A multi-disciplinary Journal of the faculty of General Studies
Ali Miqdad Ali
(2017-12-10) RELIGION AS AN INDISPENSABLE TOOL FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA
There are divergent views on the concept and ideologies of religion between the third world centuries and the developed nations. Many in the third World nations belief that religion plays an integral role in the development of the total man and the country while those in the developed nations believed that it should be scrapped out of human existence and be replaced with a different ideology that is good for humanity because to them religion is a promoter of violence and that the goal of good governance will not be achieved in the place where religion strives. In view of this, this paper takes a critical look at religion by exposing some of the arguments that have been presented on its concept and ideologies. The research methodology adopted is historical, this was because the nature of the erese arch demanded an historical. The findings of the study revealed that there was a significant relationship between religion and governance in Nigeria. The paper also x- ray good governance within the context of Nigeria, bringing some of the complexities religion posses to the country in terms of achieving the goals and good governance in a country thar is developing and finally draws conclusion. Among th e recommendations made includes, Nigeria citizens should not take tribe, language, religion and location as mean s of difference to fight fellow Nigerian.
The Gazelle, A multi-disciplinary Journal of the faculty of General Studies
(2017-12-23) Ali Miqdad Ali
Methods of Qur’ānic Memorisation (Ḥifẓ): Implications for Learning Performance
(Intellectual Discourse, 2018) Dzulkifli, Mariam Adawiah; Solihu, Abdul Kabir Hussain
Memorisation of the Qur’ān occupies a central position in Muslim conception of religious education. The awareness of preserving the Qur’ān through memorisation (ḥifẓ) is becoming prevalent and is still continued in these modern days in many educational institutions in many parts of the Muslim countries. This article examines different methods of Qur’ānic memorization being practiced in Malaysia. Similarities and uniqueness of those methods will be presented. The evaluation of those Qur’ānic memorisation techniques brings to the foreground the educative value of memorisation as a learning tool and the implications memorisation methods have in enhancing an individual’s learning performance.
Dr. Ali Miqdad Ali
(2018-07-20) An Assessment of Rationale behind Plurality in the Modes of Recitation of the Qur'an
Science of Qirı ät is one of the sources of Islamic Law (Shar+ ah,. It occupies a place of prominence among all related branches of Uimul-Qurın. Yet, it is one of the most neglected branches of Islamic Studies in Nigeria especially in Yorubaland. This can be attributed to lack of adequate knowledge on the part of large majority of Muslims in regard to the multiplicity of the modes of recitation of the Qur'an and the reason for its preservation. This study traces the origin of Qirã ãt fron the scholars of modes of recitation Aiunatul-Qurrãs to the primary source. Attempt is also made to provide examples of different patterns of the modes of recitation and their meanings. Descriprive and analytical methods are adopted for this research. The study concludes, among others, that llmul-Qiã tät gestures towards the uniqueness of the Quran and recommends adherence to and further exploration of the field.

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