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    A Case Study Of Islamic Impact on Western Civilization, In the novel: Still Born by Zainab Alkali.
    (Department of Arabic Studies, faculty of Arts, Federal University of Lafia, Nasarawa State., 2022) Abdullahi Ahmad Maisalati
    يعدّ الإنسان ابن بيئته التي يعيش فيها وابن ثقافته التي يتثقّف بها. والأدب مرآة الحياة يُنظر فيها البعيدُ من القريب والقديمُ من الحديث. وقد ظهر أثر الإسلام وثقافته في أعمال كثير من الأدباء الذين حذقوا الأدب غايته نتيجة انتشاره في ديار نيجيريا لاسيما شمالها. وكما يُوجد الأدباء المتأثرون بالأدب الإسلامي في الأدب العربي يوجد في الآداب الأخرى مثل الأدب الإنجليزي والأدب الفرنسي وغيرهما لأن بينهم كثيرا من المسلمين المخلصين. تهدف هذه الورقة إلى إبراز الأدب الإسلامي وإثباتها في عمل الأديبة الحاجة زينب ألكالي الروائية، التي ساهمت بمؤلفاتها في تعليم المجتمع آدابا إسلامية، هي كاتبة روائية باستخدام اللغة الإنجليزية لأنها ذات ثقافة غربية. من ذلك روايتها المعروفة بــ"ستل بون still born" والتي تُرجّم عنوانُها إلى اللغة العربية بــ "السقط". عالجت فيها فكرة تؤيّد تعليم المرأة المسلمة بموافقة دين الإسلام وأن النسوة في شمال نيجيريا يئنّ تحت الحرمان من التعليم والعمل. وفي معالجة هذه الورقة استخدم الباحث المنهجين: المنهج التاريخي والمنهج التحليلي. ومن نتائج هذا البحث أن الكاتبة وضعت روايتها على غرار التعليم الإسلامي، واستطاعت أن ترسم عملها بصورة إسلامية، وأعلنت للمجتمع النيجيري بإباحة التعليم وجوازه للمسلمات كما أُبيح وأُجيز للمسلمين.
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    A LITERARY STUDY OF SOCIAL THEMES IN MAQĀMĀT AL-ILŌRĪ
    (2022-11) Jamiu Muhammad Yunus
    Maqāmah is a prosimetric literary genre very popular in Arabic literature and well accepted among scholars of literature across the Islamic world. It is a genre alternating ryhmic prose (sajc) and poetry as the narrative style in its presentation. The genre had been in deep and long hibernation until very recently, especially in Nigeria; the reason for its revival could be because maqāmah is a precursor to prosaic literary writing among Muslim scholars. The genre, among Arabs, used to be for demonstration of flowery ability to express literary contents; it is often short and ornamental but replete with moral themes. The genre is well embraced among Nigerian Muslim scholars of Yoruba extraction because it suites their folkloric heritage: the Yoruba culture of telling tales by moonlight to young children before dinner makes maqāmah very adaptive to their environment. The concern of this paper is to study the sociological themes in a collection of maqāmāt written by Muhammad Awwal bin Abdus-Salaam. Literature being a social document and prism through which society could be viewed in a very crystal manner; the study chose two maqāmahs for the purpose of discussing how the writer has succeeded in making his work a true reflection of his society. One of the maqāmahs discusses a national crisis that enveloped a state in the recent past where many lives were lost in Kaduna, with hoodlums hiding under religion to perpetuate the mayhem of catastrophic consequence. The other maqāmah has as its themes guidance and advice of Muslim scholars on how to get steady and sustainable means of income instead of hinging their survival on the society all in the name of being religion scholars. The paper concludes with a critique of literary styles of the writer to appraise its conformity with standard ways of writing maqāmahs.
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    A Pragmatic Analysis of Selected Campaign Posters of the Two Major Nigerian Political Parties
    (Issues in Language and Literary Studies, 2022) Moshood Zakariyah
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    A study of the social and health damages of smoking in the Diwan of "Al-Riyadh" by the poet Issa Alabi Abu Bakr
    (jnal, Egypt, 2022) Tajudeen Yusuf
    This article aims to study a poem entitled "The Scourge of the Age" in the Diwan of "Al-Riyadh", those literary works of the poet Issa Albi Abu Bakr, the genius writer of the modern poets in Arabic in Nigeria. This article dealt with one of the social-health issues prevalent in society and represented in the pests of smoking and its harms and negative effects on individuals and society in the poetry of the poet Iss Albi Abu Bakr, and the approach followed in the study is the descriptive approach prevalent in literary studies, the aim of which is to highlight the role of African poets, especially from the sons of Nigeria is in the service of society like other contemporary Arab poets. The study shows that the poet Issa Albi Abu Bakr has a dominant position among African writers nterested in contemporary social issues in order to build a human society and establish values.
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    AFRICAN CREATIVE WRITERS AS BEACON OF NATION BUUILDING:A VOYAGE THROUGH TAWFIQ AL- HAKIM'S MASIRUS-SARSAR
    (2024) Yunusa Muhammad Jamiu
    The purpose of this essay is to elucidate the fact that contemporary African creative writers, unlike their earlier predecessors, tend to ignore raising consciousness of the political leaders by drumming into them the effects of good and responsible governance.The first generation creative writers explored their creativity to depict their emerging nations and guide the rulers on the importance of good governance. Since the second half of the 20th century,when the African continent began to quickly gain independence from colonial rule, creative writers have served as the conscience and guide of many African nations. Through their inspirational writings, which have consistently illuminated paths for political leaders and kept them on their toes,these writers have played a significant role in shaping their respective societies.
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    Analysis of some Societal Grievances in the poem of Isa Alabi Abubakar, "Soften your Steps" as a case study.
    (Department of Arabic and Transnational Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ilorin., 2025) Abdullahi Ahmad Maisalati; Salih Muhmmad Juma'h Alaso
    ملخص الشكوى فن من فنون الشعر الذي يلجأ إليه الشاعر كلما يجد نفسه أمام تعب أو عذاب أو ظلم أو ضرر في حياته الشخصية أو في مجتمعه ولا يقدر إلا التعبير عنه بلغة الشعر التي يذهب إلى ألفاظها لإعراب ما يجيس بداخله من عدم الرضا وإظهار حزنه وأسفه على الحوادث والوقائع والظروف السلبية المتباينة، والهدف من هذه السطور تسلط الضوء على مفهوم شعر الشكوى وطبيعته في الشعر العربي عامة ولدى الشاعر عيسى ألبي أبوبكر بصفة خاصة، وبؤرة انتباه الورقة منصبّ على قصيدته المعنونة "خفف الوطء يا معالي الوزير"، وقد جذبت القصيدة انتباه الكاتب الحالي لما فيها من مناقشة شاملة لبعض المشاكل التي تواجه التعليم في نيجيريا لإظهار ما فيها من الأفكار النافعة للمسئولين والعاملين في الحقل التعليمي. واعتمد الكاتب في عمله على المنهج الوصفي في تحليل مضمون القصيدة وفي تحليل الظروف السياسية والاقتصادية الداعية إلى قرض القصيدة ووصف ما فيها من القيم الأدبية الفنية، واكتشف الكاتب أمورا عديدة لها يد طولى في قرض تاقصيدة مما فيها أن الإضراب عن العمل العام الذي قام به أساتذة الجامعات النيجيرية الذي استغرق أكثر من تسعة أشهر والذي سبَّب أضرارًا اقتصادية ونفسية جسيمة لهولاء الأساتذة الذين كان الشاعر واحدا منهم له دور كبير في الألفاظ الشديدة اللهجة التي وظَّفها الشاعر في القصيدة.
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    Arabic and Non-Arabic Elements in the Ilorin Dialect of Yoruba
    (Department of Linguistics and Nigerian LLanguages, University of Ilorin, Ilorin., 2011) AbdulRazaq M. Katibi
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    ARABIC GRAMMATICAL THOUGHT BETWEEN THEORY AND APPLICATION IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN LINGUISTICS
    (Seminar International Bahasa Arab, Jakarta, 2012-08-01) MURITALA YAHYA TOYIN
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    Arabic Manuscript: The Hidden Treasure of Ilorin - Nigeria
    (RESEARCH AFRICA REVIEWS, 2018) Moshood Mahmud Jimba
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    AT-TA’ĀWUN ROKḻZAH LI AL-HAYĀH: DIRĀSAH TAHLḻLIYAH LI AL-MATṠAL AL-ARABY
    (2023)
    Abstract: Many Arabic proverbs emphasize the importance of collaboration and its influence on the progress and development of humans and society. This study chooses proverbs as the object of study because of their wide distribution and universality. This paper aims to study the Arabic proverb al-yadu al-wahidah la tushaffiq, which gives advice about human life, experience, and many lessons. It discusses the various forms of human collaboration in society. This paper is qualitative descriptive research. The data collection technique in this research is the documentation technique. As for the data analysis technique used, it includes reading, categorization, and interpretation, as well as concluding. This research shows that al-yadu al-wahidah la tushaffiq proverb shows the importance of cooperation between human beings. Humanity is complete and can only progress with collaboration and teamwork. Al-yadu al-wahidah la tushaffiq proverb shows that collaboration can take various forms: community cooperation, security cooperation, peace cooperation, and economic cooperation. Keywords: Arabic proverb, human collaboration, society
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    Between Theories and Good Governance: An Appraisal of Mahmūd Taymūr's Ashturu min Iblis (Satanic Lines)
    (2021) Jamiu Muhammad Yunusa
    Many African countries are caught in the web of applying borrowed imported theories of leadership to tackle national challenges of ruling over citizens of different African nations. Those tested theories have not been very successful in bringing about the desired results and have mostly impacted negatively on many generations of African leaders. An Egyptian playwright,Mahmud Taymür had many years back, suggested a way out of the predicament of Africans adopting borrowed solutions to challenges of good governance in the continent. This paper intends to appraise this particular work of the playwright with a view to revealing his use of literary trappings to offer positive pieces of advice on building a nation through good governance. The rescarcher adopted descriptive and analytical methods to navigate this work under the following subheadings: Introduction, Methods, Discussion, Results, The Play and Contemporary Governance Challenges, Criticism of the Text and Conclusion.
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    Contemporary Arabic Novelists and Social Responsibility: a Peep into AlHijri’s Al-Sayyid Al-Raees
    (2014-03) Jamiu Muhammad Yunusa
    Novel writing in Arabic language is a contemporary effort in Arabic literature of Nigerian authorship. This, however, is not strange because of the fact that the genre in global Arabic literature is equally not very old. It is however note worthy how writers use Arabic in purely literary ways to convey social messages. Novel writing, most especially, is being explored to champion the discharge of the responsibility thrust on writers as shapers of the society. One of such writers is an upcoming novelist, Hamid al-Hijri. This paper aims at analyzing the positive roles modern writers in Arabic play to socialize their readers and bring them to the realm of wider awareness devoid of religious jingoism, using Al-Sayyid Al-Raees as a case study.
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    CULTURE AND ITS GENERAL ISLAMIC EXPRESSIVE LINGUISTIC MANIFESTATIONS BETWEEN CHALLENGES AND EXPECTATIONS
    (IBRAHIM BADAMOSI BABANGIDA UNIVERSITY, LAPAI., 2021-11-22) MURITALA YAHYA TOYIN
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    DOMESTICATION OF ARABIC PROSE IN NIGERIA
    (2012) Muhammed Yunusa Jamiu
    Prose is not alien to Arabic writings of Nigerian authorship. There is,however, preponderance of poems in Arabic writings of Nigerian descent.That poetry is more embraced could be due to many factors, chief amongwhich is that it is easy to memorize. The metric and rhythmic nature ofArabic poem coupled with lyrical tendencies of many Nigerians make poemeasy for them to compose. The musical attributes of poetry make it a veryefficient means of disseminating message; hence the huge reliance on it byearly scholars of Arabic for their teachings. It is also a historical fact thatpoetry preceded prose in germinating in every human society. Anotherimportant reason that endeared poetry to the ancient writers was that theywere more in contact with poetic works of the Arabs than prosaic materials.The themes of ancient Arabic writings both poetry and prose, were almostsynonymous in the sense that they were didactic, meant to teach religiousrituals. Many works of the forerunners in using Arabic language attest to thisas we can see in the preface to the famous Ihya' us-Sunnah of Uthman binFodio, where he stated that his intention was only to revive the prophetictraditions. In other words, many of the prosaic works of the early scholarswere confined to religious issues. This has made it very uncommon to findArabic writings that were principally aimed at discussing other themes apartfrom religious matters.The emergence of Shaykh Adam Abdullahi Al-Ilory brought aboutreform and transformation of Arabic prosaic writings in Nigeria. The concernof this paper therefore, is the study of selected themes from Al-Ilory's worksin his efforts to domesticate Arabic prose writing. The paper is divided intofive sections namely introduction; short biography of Al-Ilory; synopsis of the selected works; analysis of the works and conclusion.
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    Domestication of Arabo-Islamic Words in the Ilọrin Dialect of Yorùbá
    (Department of History, Unviversity of Texas at Austin, U.S.A, 2021-10) AbdulRazaq M. Katibi
    Language is a dynamic phenomenon which develops-among other things with the introduction of new concept. Yoruba language-like many other living languages- has developed for its ability to accommodate new concepts into its vocabulary. With the introduction of Islam to many parts of the world, Arabic becomes the instrument to convey its concepts. Some of these concepts are either adopted as a loan word or being literally translated. However, Yoruba dialect spoken in Ilorin adopts a strategy of domesticating some of the Arab-Islamic words despite the fact that some of these concepts do not exist in Yoruba Language. This work therefore aims at identifying and trace the origin of the domesticated Arabic of Islamic concept popularly used in the dialect of Ilorin people. Forty (40) of such words are selected in the areas of Islamic doctrine, civilization and materials. Meanwhile simple percentage is used to analyze some variables in the work. After the study it is discovered that the heterogenic composition of Ilorin assisted in the domestication of Islamic concept from Arabic. A sizeable of them are from Yoruba origin coined and adopted from Yoruba while some of these words are from other Languages. Interestingly these words only do not find their ways in Yoruba dictionary but are also regularly used among Yoruba people in Nigeria. It is recommended that further studies should be conducted in this area for the purpose of enriching relationship between Arabic and Yoruba Languages.
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    Enhancement of the Nigerian National Grid Performance with a FACT Compensator
    (Faculty of Engineering, University of Benin, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria, 2022) Ogunbiyi, O., Adesina, L.M., Ugwute, F.O. and Thomas, C.T.
    The Nigerian grid is faced with loss of lines and system collapse due to overloads, under-loads, and inadequate reactive power at the buses. Analysis of the power flow supported by static voltage stability condition of the system can provide insight to the system performance indicators like voltage profile, power flows and losses. Voltage control and power loss reduction strategies are still based on mechanical methods such as synchronous generators/condensers, tap changing of transformers, switching of shunt reactors and capacitor banks, switching of transmission lines, generating unit scheduling, and manual load shedding. However, flexible alternating current transmission systems (FACT) such as a static VAR compensator offers flexible and fast control of power system operations unlike the mechanically switched devices which are restricted by wear and tear and slow response. Hence this work demonstrates the use of static voltage analysis in seeking the optimal placement of a static volt-ampere reactance (VAR) compensator called (SVC) on the power system. This idea was tested on the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) 330 kV-bus system which was modelled and analyzed using NEPLAN software and the results showed substantial improvement in the voltage profiles and loss reduction. Simulations of the peak condition showed that 9 stations violated the set limits. It is recommended that FACTS devices be optimally located at Sakete (6°44′11″N 2°39′29″E) bus bars for effective transmission of electric power on the grid.
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    EVOLUTION OF ARABIC PROSE AMONG NIGERIAN YORUBA AUTHORS: AN ASSESSMENT OF THEMATIC TRANSFORMATION
    (2015-01-25) Yunusa Jamiu Muhammad
    Prose which is a symbol of societal life does not enjoy rapid growth poetry enjoys in any literature. The reason is not far-fetched as poetry is more natural because of its lyrical nature which is more individualistic. Literary prose, in contrast to poetry, is rendered in a controlled manner that requires ripe thinking which displays maturity relying on logical reasoning presented in a captivating narrative style. Like in many other societies, literary Arabic prose evolved among the Yorubas in Nigeria in the shade of Islamic religion; this resulted in a very long gestation period before indigenous scholars of Arabic come to terms with the reality that prosaic expression is as important and relevant as poetic exercise. This paper aims at studying the thematic transformation of Arabic prose among the Yorubas in Nigeria. To do this, the paper is divided into: introduction, early themes of Arabic prose, transformation from religious to social themes, analytical studies of social themes, critique of selected samples, and conclusion.