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Program Officer: Peacebuilding, PCVE, Conflict prevention, Gender; Yiaga & FCDO Grantee, Research & community engagement, RO @eweinigeria , SGBV, SRHR

Abuja, Nigeria
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Introducing Abdussamad Ahmad Yusuf Welcome to X. Read about me here and let's connect to explore areas of professional expertise-anything peacebuilding, PCVE, social cohesion, conflict transformation, politics, religion, gender-based violence, climate change mitigation, et al.
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During colonial conquest Magajin Garin Keffi killed his Resident; Captain Maloney and fled to Zazzau, 1903. They refused him refuge, he proceeded to Kano. Kano accomodated him at cost of persecution from the whites.That's how he escaped to Makka. 1/2
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Yadda Sarkin Keffi ya tashi daga kan karagarsa ta mulki ya bai wa Sarkin Kano, Alh Aminu Ado Bayero, ya hau ya zauna, shi kuma ya koma kan kujerar baki ya zauna a location da Sarkin Kano ya ziyarci fadarSarkin Keffin ranar Juma'a. 📹: Usman A. Usman
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Shaykh Sani Kafanga 'He was born in Kafanga ward in Kano of a Kanuri father and a Hausa mother. His first education was from his father and he was then sent to study with Muhammad al-Rabiu b. Yunus, known as Dan Tinki and then with Muhammad b. Umar. Other teachers included
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The station of the Master. Ihdinas sirāt al-Shykh Tijāni!
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“When a man is tired of Kano, he is tired of life; for Kano has all that life can give” — Professor Abdallah Uba Adamu Kano has unique, sterling and transmogrifying character for Eids. It is the city. It is its royal. It is the people. What adds color to it, 1/4
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West African Islamic/muslim tradition: when a learned Mallam visits a more senior Shaykh it follows a rendition or presentation of hagiographical, polemical or praisal work in his respect, and often presentation of the intellectual production (book,etc) of the Malam for blessing.
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Vedio: The Al Jazeera English has featured a bit in its news on the first two days of the Kano 2024 Eid-el-fitr durbar procession led by the Emir of Kano--Alh. Aminu Ado-Bayero, CFR: Hawan Idi and Hawan Daushe. 1/2
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Prof. John N. Paden has writen ablut her in his celebral work; Religion and Political culture in Kano written in the 1960s, likwise Alaine Hutson in his works on Women Tijjanis. She is Hajiya Mowa (Aisha).
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Surrogacy in Islam. I like jurisprudential tackling at modernism, and modern challenges.
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Kano’s Alfijir newspaper, today’s edition. Ajami has a long history of contribution in Hausaland intellectual history.
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This Mimiyya (poem ending in mīym ‘M’) written by Sheikh Tijjani Uthman Zangon Bare-bare is the most celebrated sufi poem rendered to Sheikh Ibrahim Niase. Zangon Bare-bari, is the founder of the school of thought described by Dr. Auwalu Anwar as...1/2
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Proud to be part of this modest achievement from the conception stage to now the implementation; female-only university in Nigeria!
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Members of the Planning and Implementation Committee of the newly established Taskiya University, Kaduna led by the Proprietor of the University and Imam of National Mosque, Abuja Professor Ibrahim Maqari Sa'eed this afternoon brief His Highness the Emir of Zazzau
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Shykh Abubakar Atiku Sanka wrote this poem إعانة البلداء بالمنظومة الرقطاء, for beginner-learning of Arabic language. In those millieu majority of people can read Ajami, thus; the lines (poetic) have everyday words and their meaning in Hausa. 1/2
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Yan “a soke Lefe” sun daɗe a ƙasar nan ashe. This poem, written in the 1960s, lament against rasing cost of marriage. It cautions that kayan-zance (Lefe) is a burden that causes dissolution of marriages and needs to be revisited for sustainable marriages in Hausaland. In fact,
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I'm thrilled to inform you of my selection as Youth Advisor to the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands in Nigeria. I will be providing advisory in areas of #Peacebuilding and #Conflict Mitigation, Prevention and Countering Violent Extremism, #PCVE among others.
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I obtained my copy of Professor Moses Ochonu’s new book! Anything Hausa, Fulani, Kanuri, hausaland, Bornu Northern Nigeria is my go-area.
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Even in Nigeria, the women Tijjaniyya adhrents have rose to be scholars and spiritual guides in their own right. John Paden in his seminal Religion and Political culture in Kano, noted that "many wives and daughters of the reformed Tijjani Mallams (especially the Salgawa... 1/4
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I knew Ghali only scantly either as a person or a public servant at his peak. He was, however, the favourite politician of my father. In Ghali it was a combination of Ɗancikin gari and an accomplished politician; the number sixth public servant of the country. He was 1/2
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Mimiyya ta Ɗan Usmanu; Zaki hanyarka ahadun! Even if you aren’t of the Sufi metaphorical stuffs, Mimiyya will teach you poetic arabic diction!
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'The theft of my radio and the circumstances of its return whetted my curiosity about the partition of the Hausa into Niger and Nigeria and the consequences of that partition for frontier life in Hausaland today. It also planted the seeds for a research agenda that entailed
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Away from the usual “anti-Islam” campaign of the season film Manyan Mata, I've written about four important themes of the film, though casually as I used to. @AdizatouGabon Manyan Mata -Not a review
Manyan Mata — Not a review

By Abdussamad Ahmad Yusuf

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Tsoho mai sufar da yara ke shauki Kuma shine samartaka aikin-aiki.
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In 1993 Garba Maisikeli was awarded Honorary Doctorate Degree by Bayero University, Kano. In 1994 he donated one-third of his personal library to the university (I have shared how richly the library was from the PhD thesis of Ibrahim A. Tahir). 1/3
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Letter from Shaykh Ibrahim Niase to deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi I. First step to Nigeria's Tijjaniyya calipha-ship
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Pissed off by the authoritarian rule of the Sultan against Tijjaniyya adherents, Sh. Atiku Sanka wrote an invective poem: Khanjarur rabbani (excerpt below). He posed infront of his house in the Kano city for a picture holding spear; used as cover of the book telling yes it's me!
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Between 1964-65 John N. Paden was in Kano on a research fellowship, it's which gave the book ‘Religion and Political Culture in Kano’. It x-ray Kano, from both written & oral sources he gsthered. This work by Paden remain one of the most important work on Kano.
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Fatahin Bauchi saurayi baje shaiɗani. —Ahmad Abdallah
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Dear friend, learn how to write; it is shortcut to many jobs in the non-for-profit/NGO sector, and many jobs/roles, rely on writing. However, you can not be a writer if you are not reader. READ!
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Maulana Shykh Ahmad Tijjāni bin Usman Zangon Bare-bari, Kano on Ahādith.
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#Safar4ShehuTijjani -Aybatal fuqara' Fa na fara da Bismillah In zo in biya da Hamdillah Salati ma'a-s salamullah Bisa Ɗaha Rasulillah Abin zaɓe na Rahmani Da alai har sahabbansa Kaza zuriya da matansa Da masu biyar adininsa Da dukkan masu begensa Da dukkan masu imani
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Are you from KANO?. Know your Unguwa (Quater) and its origin. My father is from Magoga and I from Kofar waika.
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This bravery shown to Keffi prince by Kano was the basis of the respect accorded to Emir of Kano eah time he is in Keffi, the Emir will vacate his throne for the Emir of Kano. 2/2
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In recent I begin to polish my knowledge of the excel, start learning Data Analysis and Visualization -- even feel like a Pro, and then, Canva design. You can see attached screen munch, the Newsletter I wrote. These are skills, I learn courtesy of Youtube and online readings.
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Masā'il al-Janāza by Shykh Atiku Sanka: #Thread The debates on “authentic” funeral rites emerged shortly after the demise of one of the Madabawa (scholars of madabo and affiliates) to which Shaykh Muhammadu Salga critiqued the madabo practices. 1/6
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Late Professor Mahdi. Interested in the History of Hausa? Get this read.
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The station of the Master This is the highest spritual station to be climbed by a human. An yi ba za a kuma ba: Kuṭbul fard; fardul jāmi'. Al-Hassany, al-Hussainy, al-Sharif ul-'ā'la, At-Tijāni.
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This is a primary source that gives account of the early contact of 'Northern Nigeria' with the West writen by the whitemen, famous among which, Hugh Clapperton who had the opportunity of meeting Sultan Muhammad Bello discovering & exploring the Sokoto Caliphate.
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'In Yaji's time the Wongarawa came from Mele, bringing the Muhammnadan religion. The name of their leader was Abdurahaman Zaite. Others were Yakubu, Mandawali, Famori, Bilkasim, Kanaji, Dukere, Sheshe, Kebe, Murtuku, Liman Jibrin Yallabu, the father of Serikin Pawa, Gurdumus, 1/4
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Kaf ƙasar Hausa, ba ai Malami kamar Shehu Atiku ba!
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@JaafarSJaafar Thankfully, today, Buhari do not carry political weight as he used to be, and neither Tunde nor Sani Zangon Daura has the political except money power, to battle Tinubu. Awa lokan
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A Prof. in Canada reached out to me on FB to help him with a research. It is satisfying that I did not only accepted to join the research; I equally conducted it within the shortest period of time. It took two days of painstaking data gathering, reading, literature review 1/2
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Late Sheikh Tijjani Tukur Yola, whose BBC Hausa vedio reciting poem eulogizing the prophet went viral. May Allah be pleased with him. #MauludNabiy1444AH
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@Abba_Jalo I want to learn how did the Hausa institutionalize Almajiri, please. Can someone who lost authority 200 years ago institutionalize anything? Who are the custodians of the almajiri schools all over the Hausland?
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'Goran Faydha' - vessel of spiritual flood - written by Alhaji Abdulkadir Balarebe ibn Haruna Jega. Jega is a disciple of Shykh Abubakar Atiq Sanka, Kano. Beyond its theme, veneration of Inyas and the faydha, Goran Faydha provides historical context into our...1/2
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In this article, my interest in Local History, took me to identify two leading factors that facilitate the phasing out of the famous Ishiriniya circles in Kano city.
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Gotten the PhD thesis of Wazirin Sokoto, Wali Junaidu Sambo..
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Ga abin yana ɓuya, Amma bayyanarsa na shuhra Ga shi babu shi amma, Wasu kullum da shi suke hira Babu kishiyarta akwai, Sai bayanka shi ake gyara Mai ido ya sha kallo, Mahajubi ko na jiran gyara Ni da Shehu gam, gam, gam, Na manne ba zan yi gangan ba. —Zayyanu Aƙilu Aliyu
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Nigerian Muslim need to tell their story. The Boko Haram crisis for the fast 1 decade operates in the muslim majority BAY states & spilled to Bauchi & Kano. Yet the international community and local Christians portray it as religious cleansing of Xtians. Same goes to banditry.
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"This is not a history of Kano, although it may serve as an interim substitute, and may perhaps stimulate others to prepare such an account. It is rather a historical study of the Kano polity undertaken by social anthropologist..." -- MG Smith
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The book provides insight into understanding of the intricacies of Nigeri’a democratic practices in Muslim communities: the compatibilities and incompatibilities. Paden authored Religion and Political Culture in Kano as well as the Biographies of Ahmadu Bello & Muhammadu Buhari.
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When it come to the propagation of Sunnah and its application, honestly the Tijjani (esp. Faydha sub-group) for their modesty and humbleness, have undercommunicated their contribution. That today, some people appropriated the track ‘ahl sunnah’ to themselves only.
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One thing about Shykh Nazifi not well known is that his father Mallam Ƙarami, is of the Salgawa network of Kano ulema & relate to Shykh Atiku Sanka tho, never made popularity. 1)2
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Last night, I paid a visit to Sheikh Nazifi al-Karmawy. Allah karawa rayuwa albarka.
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Kano once had eagle-eyed Governors! Their vision was better & sustainable Kano. Tiga Dam: 2,270M liters per day; designed for irrigation and hydropower generation. The latter is yet to be achieved in morethan 12 years since 2012 and the former, seriously under-uterlize!
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My plan 4 books: to hv simple office with both online & offline repository 4 indigineous books and local historical sources writen on Kano (I may expand 2 other Hausa states). Aim is 2 be a source 4 resources to researchers, scholars & general readers on history & trends on Kano.
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If you want to understand Africa's rich intellectual heritage, John Hunwick's Arabic Literature of Africa (ALA)-series is a way to. I'm particularly interested in Vol.II on the Central Sudanic Africa - that covers scholars in the Hausaland, Bornu, et al.
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Yoruba in Kano: 'In Kurmi market, during the 19th century, Yoruba traders established a trading section called Iso Atare known in Hausa as Yancitta and Yantafarmuwa. In the 19th century, the growth in commercial intercourse between Kano and Yorubaland led to the settling down1/13
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The 1st 'international seminar on Kano' held at History Dept of BUK 1981. This book is a proceeding of the seminar edited by Bawuro M. Barkinɗo. Papers include of the cerebral Murray Last, MG Smith, Philips Shear, and other notable local scholars of international repute.
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Gado Girman Ɗa is writen by the oral historian I wrote about yesterday, Mallam Ibrahim Hussain. The book majored in the histories of Kano; its traditional and political institutions. It also discuss biographies of selected important individuals.
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PMB sited University of Transportation in Daura no one complained. CBN have had 'unannounced' recruitment for years, staffed with elite northerners b'cuz they ’re influencial in the administration. Now these elite want us to fight their fight that Tinubu avenge Buhari's misdoings
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'The introduction of Islamic calendar with prayer times was pioneered by Malam Garba Maisikeli in 1962. The ‘Maisikeli Calendar’ integrates the Hijra and Gregorian calendars coupled with prayer timings for Kano including astronomical information and timing variations for 1/3
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We Will all Die in Captivity. I By Abdussamad Ahmad Yusuf In a viral audio, circulating on the social media, a bandit, in conversation with a negotiator for the release of Alhaji Muhammad Isah Bawa, the Emir of Gobir, was resolute affirming his decision on a ransom 1/11
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There was time I tweet about Malam Kamalu Na Ma’aji (Kano); his book series ‘Marajal Bahrayn’ popular in Northern Islamiyya schools. He contributed to the ‘Qabdh - Sadl’ debate with this pamphlet rebuting the position of Sheikh Umar Sanda Zaria who sided with the Fayhdha on Qabd.
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Shaykhul Islam, Alhaji Ibrahim Niase; his relationship with the Maghreb.
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Nine Balarabe Ibn Haruna Jega na'am, Ko ma ka ce Kanawiyyul Kaulakiyyu jiya; Almajiri ne na Shehu Atiku mai hidima, Gun Shehu Tijjani muddin ransa ba gajiya. Wani Ɗan uwa ne karimi ya biɗsheta garen, Mahmudu Ibnu Alasan dan uwa tafiya. Sunanta Gora ta Fairar Shehu sha ka jiya
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Finally University of Nottingham has granted my request have the Ph.D thesis of Dr. Jabir Maihula; Ibn Taymiyya's concept of jihad and its appropriation by the contemporary jihadists. I requested immediately it's defended in 2018, 2019 & 2023, and still there's embargo on sharing
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“The clearest impact from our campaign is that we have successfully empowered a large number of Almajiri students with practical skills so they are no longer begging.” —Abdussamad Ahmad Yusuf @EqualAccessIntl @farar_tattabara are the forces behind
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“Two generations ago Isa Wali, a bright young intellectual of orthodox Muslim wrote a series of articles on the position of women in Islam. This started a ferment that has continued in postcolonial Hausaland among the intelligentsia...”
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@BashirAhmaad Why not just amend INEC Act to include LG elections amongt its schedules?
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Political history of radical politics in the North; a comprehensive work on the almighty Northern Element Progressive Union, NEPU.
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'Some of the scholars connected to the Salgawa network, however, maintained the old Salgawa attitude of distance from political power; one interesting example was Shaykh Aliyu Harazimi (1919-2013). In his study of the career of Harazimi as an ascetic Sufi scholar, and as an 1/7
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The return of Soron Ingila By Abdussamad Ahmad Yusuf @KanoChronicle @HrhBayero
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The Kano millenium conference in 1999 explored the historical, political, economic, sociological and even geograpical perspectivea of Kano in its second millenium. The papers presented gave rise to this book. I am particularly fascinated by the papers of Dahiru Yahaya, 1/2
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This year Sallah pageantry promises to be diferent. Kano durbar is one of the best all over Africa, and the emirate tradition by extension. This year, on a good authority, the pageantry would be under sponsorship of an international organization. 1/2
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THE KANO-FAGGE THEORY Cc: @MA_Iliasu @KanoChronicle The tradition of radicalism and irredentism of the Yan Fagge towards the Yan Birni is, in part, accounted for by the way the inhabitants of the old city (Yan Birni) perceive inhabitants of Fagge (Yan Fagge). 1/6
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H.A.S. Johnston author of the Fulani Empire of Sokoto until his death didn’t write a memoir despite being one of the most important colonial and historical officers in understanding “the end of an empire” in northern Nigeria. Thus, this book; is letters, edited by his daughter..
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Ga abin ya na ɓuya amma bayyanarsa na shuhra, Ga shi babu shi Amma wasu kullum da shi su ke hira Babu kishiyarta akwai sai bayanka shi ake gyara Mai ido ya sha kallo mahjubi ko na jiran gyara Ni da Shehu gam gam gam, na manne ba zan yi gangan ba —Zayyanu Aƙilu Aliyu
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Who is this Ahmad Tijjani Tukur? The poem is titled Mutum cuta ne marar magani. Methink, it’s the late Mal. Tijjani Tukur Yola. I got it from the collection of Professor John N. Paden, part of his purchased Sheikh Umar Falke, Kano library.
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1980 Kano saw an uprisal; the Fadan Maitatsine- religious disturbance led by the Gardawa (Dr. Auwalu Anwar researched & documented in some papers, his MA & PhD theses). Afterwards, Borno (Bulumkutu), Adamawa (Yola), Bauchi (Pantami)... 1/2
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Theme: Hisba Actions in Kano: Integrating Constitutional, Islamic, and Cultural Frameworks You ’re invited to an inclusive thought-provoking dialogue on the recent activities by Hisba in Kano to mitigate immorality. Register here:
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Tambaya: Mai ya sa Sarkin Kano da wasu hakimai (suwa da waye?) ba ya sanya alkyabba a dawowa daga Fanisau? Menene tarihun hakan? Na gode. @KanoChronicle
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On Hausa-Fulani, Dr. Yusufu Bala Usman and Alkasum Abba have this to say;
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'Kano did not establish itself as a major centre of scholarly writing until the blossoming of the Tijaniyya there in the twentieth century, its best- known author before that being the immigrant Fulani scholar Abdullahi Suka (fl. 1660), whose long poem on Islamic praxis and 1/4
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Kukah is from the minority thus traditionally, his pen ’ll reflect unsavoury tone of a ‘marginalized’. But d bigotry in his analyses of the political history of the North in relation to religion is simply hateful, calumny. Imaging referencing Sardauna ’d ’ve outlawed western edu.
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Shehi Abubakar Atiku Sanka has left a vacuum yet to filled, not even Sheikh Shariff Saleh. “Duk kasar Hausa Ba ai Malami kamar Shehu Atiku ba” so Sheikh Sunusi Gumbi, a Wahhabi scholars appraised. Others, including Auwal Anwar have placed him above Sheikh Abdullahi Fodio.
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The first Borno Envoy to Kano & his legacies. Karabka market later became the historic Kasuwar Mandawari. He's also credited with establishing the slave towns of Indabo (yes, your Indabo 😂 is a slave town). @KanoChronicle
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We've started an Almajiri basic literacy class. And yesterday was awesome that; i distribute writing materials to the Almajiri to boost their morale on learning: Hausa, English languages and Arithmetic. @KyleInFocus @Gadpeter @kkyarigujbawu
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As part of our flag-off operation, the Islamic Center for Peace Building, Research and Development (C-PAD), Abuja, will be conducting series of a two-day capacity building workshops/training for Ulama (Islamic scholars/preachers) and Religious leaders in Kaduna, Kano, Yobe, 1/3
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Its my birthday today, Alhmadulillah ala ni'imatihi.
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RASHA ABOKAN FITA KUNYA, Malam Mudi Sipikin, 1948 Ya yan'uwa ku zo don ku ji ni Zan wo bayani akan Rusiya Gama Ingilishi fa sun tashi haikan Suka suke yi akan Rusiya Da babbata hanyarsu don kar a so su Don kar su zo nan mutan Rusiya 1/7
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The making of Madabo. They are decendants of the Wangarawa scholars who visited Kano centuries ago. The title of Babban Malami still exist in Kano with Shykh Kabiru Madabo as the current Babban Malami. The title is today ceremonial with no command of influence in present Kano.
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Shaykh Abubakar Gumi’s critism of Qur’anic studies in Borno: The response of Shaykh Sharif Ibrahim Saleh al-Hussainy
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Did you hear about the controversy of appointing 'slave' Wazirin Kano? The Temple chronicle, an unknown account of Kano's history provides insight. Lovejoy, Mahdi Shehu & Mansur did us a service bringing this unearthen history to light.
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I was selected as one of the 40 youth participants to be trained on Adolescent and Young Persons Sexual and Reproductive Health Advocacy and Policy Influencing in Kano State; dated to hold in Sunday, 29th September, 2019 by @BRIDGECONNECTNG & @EVA_Nigeria
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Gardawa, Ulama and the state in Northern Nigeria: The Maitatsine phenomenon, 1962-1985. Dr. Auwalu Anwar
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Ɗan Usmanu; Zaki hanyarka ahadun! One of the Kano’s best. The shapers of Islamic intellectualism during the Madabawa-Salgawa intellectual battles. He was a prolific writer. He wrote on tasawwuf, fiqh, madh, lugga, kalam, etc.
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Dear IGP of the @PoliceNG , your attention is needed here. Video below is Abdulmajid Dan balki, a veteran politician, handcupped, being molested for alleged opposition by official from Kaduna State gov't. Human right violation, is our democracy safe? @NigeriapolicePR @Princemoye1
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#Thread I am not tribalists neither hate any ethnic or triabal group. I am not sowing discord between two tribes. Most of my religious teachers and the Sufi Murabbi I follow are Fulani. 1/7
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Prof. Dahiru Yahaya is always at his best, RIP. Cattle, horse and mosquito may seem nothing, but Yahaya draw relationship between these animals and labor & race in the Hausaland. After his 'Basket of Kaɗanya' I've not read Yahaya's best as in this paper!
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Some rhetorics by Sheikh Dahiru Usman Bauchi against Sheikh Abubakar Mahmud Gumi. There is much to learn from our past historical millieus. You may not be there, but an appraisal & interpolation of the histories time-travels you there. 📖 Gaskiya Ta Bayyana, Dahiru Usman Bauchi
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If you want to know Prof. Dahiru Yahaya the historian, his paper of acceptance at the inauguration of Dr. Yusufu Bala Usman professorial chair should not be left unread.
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I joined muslim faithfuls in Kano for the Eid-el Adḥa prayer. It is moment of reflection for the muslims, and to restrategise as the year closes. May Allah accept it from us. #Eiduladha24
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