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Islam was introduced to Nigeria during the 11th century through two geographical routes: North Africa and the Senegalese Basin. [7] The origins of Islam in the country is linked with the development of Islam in the wider West Africa. [7] Trade was the major connecting link that brought Islam into Nigeria. [7]
Nearly 97% of the population of Karachi is Muslim. The Sunnis follow Hanafi fiqh while Shia are predominantly Ithnā‘Ashariyyah in fiqh , with significant minority groups who follow Ismaili Fiqh , which is composed of Nizari ( Aga Khanis ), Mustaali , Dawoodi Bohra and Sulaymani fiqhs .
Till by the end of 16the century Karachi was a small fishing village of Sindhi and Balochi people when Hindu merchants from Thatta established a trading port there in the early 18th century. When the British seized control of the offshore, strategically located island of Manora in 1839, Karachi had about 10,000 inhabitants.. [6]
To promote its interest in education, in 1922, the movement established a primary school in Elegbeta, Lagos Island, Lagos. [ 6 ] Prior to the establishment of the school, a request for an Ahmadi teacher from India was placed in 1921, Maulana Abdur Rahim Nayyar, a representative of the Ahmadiyya movement in colonial India and who was an ...
Hassan Ali Effendi (Urdu: حسن علی افندی Sindhi: حسن علي آفندي; 14 August 1830 – 20 August 1895) was an educationist in South Asia who is credited as the founder of one of the first Muslim schools in British India: the Sindh Madrasatul Islam (established in 1885), located in Karachi in modern-day Pakistan.
Christianity and Islam are the two main religions practiced in Nigeria. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The country is home to some of the world's largest Christian and Muslim populations, simultaneously. [ 4 ] Reliable recent statistics do not exist; however, Nigeria is divided roughly in half between Muslims, who live mostly in the northern region, and ...
Karachi University is the city's largest by number of students, number of departments & occupied land area. Karachi is home to several major public universities. Karachi's first public university's date from the British colonial era. The Sindh Madressatul Islam founded in 1885, was granted university status in 2012.
Karachi was known as Khurachee Scinde (i.e. Karachi, Sindh) during the early British colonial rule. An old image of Karachi from 1889 Karachi map, 1911 St Joseph's Convent School, Karachi An image from 1930 of Elphinstone Street, Karachi Karachi Municipal Corporation Building, inaugurated in 1932