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The Muslim share of Nigeria's population is growing further, due to a higher fertility rate. Merchants from North Africa and the Senegalese basin introduced Islam to what is now Nigeria during the 11th century, and it was the first monotheistic Abrahamic religion to arrive in Nigeria.
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. [62] [63]
The city of Kano, the state’s capital, was a key center of Islamic scholarship and trade long before the establishment of modern Nigeria. The spread of Islam in Kano is closely linked to the Trans-Saharan trade routes and the activities of scholars and traders who brought the religion to the region in the 11th century.
This is a list of notable Islamic religious leaders in Nigeria. Sunni. Salafis. Ahmad Abubakar Gumi; Sheikh Adelabu; Ja'afar Mahmud Adam; Isa Ali Pantami;
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.
Dala Hill the Cradle of Kano State Nigeria. In the seventh century, the hill was the site of a community that engaged in iron-working. [2] It was called the Tsumburbura shrine from 700 CE up until the credo's collapse as a result of Islamic dominance later in the 13th century. Kano was originally known as Dala, after the hill. [3]
The history of the territories which since ca. 1900 have been known under the name of Nigeria during the pre-colonial period (16th to 18th centuries) was dominated by several powerful West African kingdoms or empires, such as the Benin Kingdom, Oyo Empire and the Islamic Kanem-Bornu Empire in the northeast.
The first person who professed Islam was his wife, Khadija bint Khuwaylid. The identity of the second male Muslim, after Muhammad himself, is nevertheless disputed largely along sectarian lines, as Shia and some Sunni sources identify him as the first Shia imam Ali ibn Abi Talib , a child at the time, who grew up in the household of his cousin ...