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- ItemKundi Subculture in the Islamic Scholarship of Ilorin Emirate: A Historical Perspective.(Kwara State University Press, Ilorin, 2025) Salihu, Ismail OtukokoThe production, preservation and transmission of knowledge and practices relating to such phenomena as the production of “medicines” and provision of health services are universal cultural traditions. Among Muslims, such phenomena dated back to the early period of Islam and have survived up to recent times. Among Nigerian Muslims, Kundi culture relates to aspect of knowledge production and preservation, and provision of remedies to health and other conditions. It specifically relates to the production and transmission of Arabic/Ajami manuscripts dealing with information on various aspects of the Muslim’s everyday life including solutions to various human problems. Thus, Kundi represents an individual Muslim’s or family manuscript repository for both the widely acknowledged ‘efficacious Muslim charms’, ‘amulets’, ‘magical therapeutic recipes’, and ‘medicinal prescriptions’, and prayer texts for supplications. Popularly known as “Nakali” or “Asiri” among the Ilorins, Kundi is also an important source of traditional African herbal/medicinal solutions preserved in Islamic/Arabic modes. This paper examines the Kundi culture in Ilorin—a Muslim community which dynamic tradition of Islamic scholarship derived from various Islamic traditions and its multi-ethnic configuration. As a widely acknowledged regional centre of Islamic learning and Arabic manuscripts production in Nigeria, Ilorin’s Kundi reflects the important role, which Ilorin played in indigenous knowledge production, transmission and preservation. As parts of its Arabic/Ajami manuscripts production, Kundi also reflects both Islamic/Muslim and indigenous herbal medicines and solutions and thus provides a veritable source for a study of the documentation of knowledge on both the Islamic/Muslim and traditional African herbal remedies to problems. Keywords: Kundi, Nakali, Manuscripts, Culture, Knowledge Production, Documentation
- ItemMigration, Settlement Pattern and Transformation in Ilorin in Ilorin History.(Fig & Olive Ltd., Abuja, 2015) Salihu, Ismail Otukoko
- ItemFrom Traditionalism to Democratic Radicalism: A Re-examination of the Ilorin Talaka Parapo Phenomenon, 1954-1958(Department of History and International Studies, Kogi State University, Anyigba, 2012) Salihu, Ismail OtukokoThe period of decolonization in Nigeria (1950-1960) was characterized by diverse struggles at various levels. Among the most noticeable developments during the decade are party politics, electoral, political and other forms of struggle for power as well as separatist and minority agitations. Within the defunct Northern Region, the Ilorin emirate was the first to experiment with democratic local government. It therefore had its own fair share of the emergent contestations. In Ilorin town, the headquarters of the Ilorin Emirate, the unfolding of the events associated with the emergent struggles revolved around the colonial reforms aimed at democratizing the local government, which started in the early 1950s. The reforms resulted in a struggle for the control of Ilorin between the hitherto privileged traditional ruling class and the underprivileged class of commoners. Within a period of five years, Ilorin was shaken to its very foundations by the phenomenal rise and fall of a commoners’ movement known as the Ilorin Talaka Parapo (ITP)—a movement that emerged as a champion of “tradition” but ended up as a major “enemy” of Ilorin traditional institutions and their interests. In view of the confusing signals given out by the ITP at its inception coupled with Ilorin’s peculiar circumstance both as a border territory between the North and South of Nigeria and as the only “Fulani Emirate” in Yoruba land, the ethnic conflict framework has dominated analysis of the rise and transformation of the Ilorin Commoners’ movement. Such framework, however, ignores the multiethnic composition of Ilorin town itself and of the membership of the Ilorin Talaka Parapo.
- ItemIlorin Emirate: Some Aspects of the Consolidation, Socio-political and Cultural Integration of a Multi-ethnic Community(Dar Al-Fikr Al-Arabi, Cairo, Egypt, 2019) Salihu, Ismail Otukoko; Jimba, M. M.
- ItemIlorin: An Introduction to its History and Tradition of Islamic Scholarship(Kwara State University Press, Ilorin, 2019) Salihu, Ismail Otukoko