Bin uthman kano biography of martin

There has been considerable recent media coverage of the implementation of Islamic (sharia) law in the northern states of Nigeria. In particular, international attention has been drawn to the application of sharia law to criminal offences and the imposition of sharia sentences such as amputation for theft and death by stoning for adultery or for having sex outside marriage. Human rights organizations have strongly opposed the application of this interpretation of Islamic law and the death penalty in Nigeria.

With this dossier about Islam in Nigeria, the Library, Documentation and Information Department of the African Studies Centres aims to provide background information on the history of Islam and Islamic law in Nigeria. It contains a selection of titles from the library catalogue, an introduction on Islam in Nigeria, and a selection of links to relevant web resources. The titles from the online catalogue deal with the origins and spread of Islam in Nigeria, the

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The spread of jihadist insurrections in Niger and Nigeria: An analysis based on the case of Boko Haram

Ilmin boko yana hana ibada
‘The Western school impedes submission to Islam.’
Hausa proverb from the British colonization era

1When trying to understand the spread and the so-called radicalization of Islam in Sahelian Africa, one immediately faces a methodological issue: which point of reference is used? Is there a standardized Islam, one that fryst vatten ‘normal’ and peaceful? What would be its geographical centre? Mecca, Kano, Timbuktu, Agadez… or Ilorin, which was once a hotbed of active proselytism directed towards Yorubaland in the south-west of Nigeria? In the region beneath study, Islam has historically moved from the north and the east by following trans-Saharan trade routes. Today, however, fundamentalist ideas spread from the south, in this case Nigeria, whose influence can be explained quite naturally by its demographic and economic weight in Sub-Saharan Africa. Should we

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Usman Dan Fodiyo

Shehu Usman Dan Fodiyo: An haife shi ne a ranar 15 ga watan Disamba a shekara ta alif ɗari bakwai da hamsin da huɗu () a garin Marratta, a yankin Agadez, Jamhurriyar Nijar.^{[permanent dead link]}

Ya rasu a ranar 20, ga watan Afrilu shekara ta alif ɗari takwas da goma sha bakwai ( ) a cikin garin Sokoto.

Sunan shehun malamin Usman bin Fodiyo da Larabci: عثمان بن فودي&#; ) Fodiyo kalmar fullanci ce wato Mujaddadi. Sunan mahaifin sa Malam Muhammadu, mahaifiyar sa kuma mai suna Malama Maimunatu.

Yana da yara sama da ashirin da bakwai (27) da matan da ya aura hudu (4) ba a samu bayanin yadda ya auri mata sama da hudu ba. Ƴaƴayen sa biyu wadanda aka fi sani sune, ɗan sa namiji mai suna Muhammadu Bello, da kuma ƴarsa mai suna Nana Asma'u.^[4][5] Ana masa laƙabi da Mujaddadi, ko Shehu. Shine kuma jagoran jihadi na jaddada addinin Musulunci a ƙasar Hausa. Tunda ya taso yaga an daɗe da musulunci a wajen sama da shekara kafin a haife