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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]
February 2015 Nigeria bombings – A male suicide bomber killed 17 people at a bus station in Potiskum. [80] February 2015 Nigeria bombings - Two male suicide bombers killed 10 people at a bus station in Kano. [80] Chadian soldiers killed over 200 Boko Haram fighters in a clash near the town of Gamboru, close to the Cameroon-Nigeria border. A ...
Abubakar Mahmud Gumi (7 November 1924 – 11 September 1992) [1] [2] was a Nigerian Islamic scholar and Grand Khadi of the Northern Region of Nigeria (1962–1967), a position which made him a central authority in the interpretation of the Shari'a legal system in the region. [3]
Ahmed ibn Fartua, History of The First Twelve Years of The Reign of Mai Idris Alooma of Bornu (1571—1583) [29] Mai Idris admired the town for its "stubbornness and exclusiveness and presumption." In 1575, he, alongside Yamtarawalla, the chief of the Babur of Biu , made an initial attempt to invade and sack Amsaka, but he faced a fierce ...
Islam in Nigeria has witnessed a rise in the numbers of Islamic extremism notably among them, the Boko Haram, Maitatsine, Darul Islam [60] [61] among others. These sects have sometimes resorted to the use of violence in a bid to realizing their ambitions on the wider Islamic and Nigerian populations as a whole.
Since the return of democracy to Nigeria in 1999, Sharia has been instituted as a main body of civil and criminal law in 9 Muslim-majority and in some parts of 3 Muslim-plurality states, when then-Zamfara State governor Ahmad Rufai Sani [105] began the push for the institution of Sharia at the state level of government. This was followed by ...
This timeline of Islamic history relates the Gregorian and Islamic calendars in the history of Islam. This timeline starts with the lifetime of Muhammad, which is believed by non-Muslims to be when Islam started, [1] though not by Muslims. [2] [3] [4]
A Maliki scholar and the author of several books in the Arabic language, he was a Sufi ascetic in the Qadiriyya order. He founded the Arabic and Islamic Training Centre in Agege, a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria , in 1952, from which generations of Qur'anic exegetes originated.