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She is the subject of several studies, including Jean Boyd's The Caliph's Sister: Nana Asma'u 1793–1865: Teacher, Poet and Islamic Leader (1989), described as an "important book" that "provides a good read for the nonspecialist willing to discard common stereotypes about women in Africa", [17] and One Woman's Jihad: Nana Asma'u, Scholar and ...
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 ...
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 ).
The Islamic Movement of Nigeria (Arabic: الحركة الاسلامية في نيجيريا) is a banned Shia religious organization which aims to establish an Islamic state in Nigeria. It was founded by Ibrahim Zakzaky , who was inspired by the Iranian Revolution and rejects the authority of the Nigerian Government. [ 3 ]
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 ...
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.
Unlike the Western binary construct of male/men and female/women, such distinctions did not exist in Yorùbá societies. [7] Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí, in "The Invention of Women: Making African Sense of Western Gender Discourse," [8] delves into pre-colonial Yorùbá practices and explores the erasure's modern implications.
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 ]