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Chief Mohammed Shitta-Bey (19 December 1824 – 4 July 1895), alias Olowo Pupa, [1] was the first titled Seriki Musulumi (a Nigerian chieftain) of Lagos.He was a prominent Nigerian Muslim businessman, aristocrat and philanthropist who was involved in commerce across Lagos and the Niger-Delta region.
An ongoing dispute concerns the identity of the second male Muslim, that is, the first male who accepted the teachings of Muhammad. [3] [2] Shia and some Sunni sources identify him as Muhammad's cousin, Ali ibn Abi Talib, aged between nine and eleven at the time. [4] For instance, this is reported by the Sunni historian Ibn Hisham (d.
The Nigeria-born Muslim scholar Sheikh Dr. Abu-Abdullah Abdul-Fattah Adelabu has argued that Islam had reached Sub-Sahara Africa, including Nigeria, as early as the 1st century of Hijrah through Muslim traders and expeditions during the reign of the Arab conqueror, Uqba ibn al Nafia (622–683), whose Islamic conquests under the Umayyad dynasty ...
The history of Nigeria can be traced to the earliest inhabitants whose date remains at least 13,000 BC through the early civilizations such as the Nok culture which began around 1500 BC. Numerous ancient African civilizations settled in the region that is known today as Nigeria, such as the Kingdom of Nri , [ 1 ] the Benin Kingdom , [ 2 ] and ...
Sheikh Abu-Abdullah Adelabu – academician; Muslim scholar; writer; academic; publisher; cleric; founder and first president, AWQAF Africa and AWQAF Africa Muslim Open College (London) Anthony Olubunmi Okogie – Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lagos; Asi Archibong-Arikpo – president of the Presbyterian Women's Guild in Nigeria, 1975–1982
First Muslim Female convert: Khadija [5] 610 [5] When Muhammad reported his first revelation from the Angel Gabriel , Khadija was the first female and first person to convert to Islam. However, Shia Muslims claim Ali was the first to convert to Islam. Ibn Hisham & Ibn Ishaq [5] 3. First Muslim Male convert: Ali Ibn Abi Talib [6] 610 [6]
As mentioned above, the sultans were also styled Amir al-Mu´minin and Sarkin Musulmi ("King of the Muslims"), basically the autochthonous form of the former, which is the Arabic style of caliphs and other independent sovereign Muslim rulers that claim legitimacy from a community of Muslims); Mai, occurring in various sultans' surnames, is another autochthonous title. [6]
A. Sani Abacha; Seriki Williams Abass; Tajudeen Abbas; Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah; Adekoya Adesegun Abdel-Majid; Abdulhamid Isa Dutse; Eedris Abdulkareem; Sheikh Ahmed Abdullah