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The Federation of Muslim Women Association of Nigeria (FOMWAN) is a faith-based, non-profit, and non-governmental organization. It was founded in October 1985 by a group of educated Muslim women. FOMWAN's main focus is the dissemination of Islamic beliefs and the education and empowerment of Muslim women in Nigeria. It is the civil society ...
Today in Northern Nigeria, Islamic women's organisations, schools, and meeting halls are commonly named for her. She re-entered the debate on the role of women in Islam in the 20th century, as her legacy has been carried by Islamic scholars and immigrants to Europe and its academic debates. [16]
Islamic toilet etiquette is a set of personal hygiene rules in Islam that concerns going to the toilet. This code of Islamic hygienical jurisprudence is called Qaḍāʾ al-Ḥāǧa ( Arabic : قضاء الحاجة ).
Trade was the major connecting link that brought Islam into Nigeria. [7] Islam was first documented in Central Sudan by medieval Islamic historians and geographers such as Al-Bakri, Yaqut al-Hamawi and Al-Maqrizi and later works of Ibn Battuta and Ibn Khaldun offered more notes about Islam in West Africa. [7]
In the early history of Islam, examples of notable female Muslims who fought during the Muslim conquests and Fitna (civil wars) as soldiers or generals included Nusaybah bint Ka'ab [165] a.k.a. Umm Amarah, Aisha, [166] Kahula and Wafeira. [167] Medieval Bimarestan or hospitals included female staff as female nurses.
The Ansar Ud Deen of Nigeria: Case Study in Islamic Modern Reformist Movement in West Africa (Lagos: Muslim Institute for Research and Planning, 1978) [32] Gbadamosi, T.G.O., Historical Insights into Mother Alumni Association UIAA Lagos, 1958-1999 (Lagos: Spectrum Books, 1999) [ 33 ]
The Ahmadiyya movement established itself in Nigeria in 1916, [54] [55] and make up approximately 3% of the Muslim population. [56] There are numerous Ahmadiyya centres in Nigeria including the Baitur-Raheem Mosque in Ibadan inaugurated in 2008, [ 57 ] the Mubarak Mosque in Abuja, which is the last Ahmadiyya mosque, built in the first century ...
The fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) is based on admonitions in the Quran for Muslims to be ritually clean whenever possible, [citation needed] as well as in hadith literature (words, actions, or habits of the Islamic prophet Muhammad). Cleanliness is an important part of Islam, including Quranic verses that teach how to achieve ritual cleanliness.