Abdul Kabir Hussain Solihu

• Professor at Kwara State University

The current study aimed to evaluate the contribution of Qawā’id Fiqhiyyah (Islamic Legal Maxims) in developing facts and theoretical arguments for green investment practices. The background of this study was based on the principles of Islamic economics that aim to balance economic activities and environment. Furthermore, the study attempted to enri...

This article examines Ibn Taymiyya's vision of governance, spotlighting the concepts of public interest (mas{lahah) and prosperity (falâh) within the Islamic law (sharî’a) framework. The increasing importance of Islamic governance in contemporary political discussions, particularly in Muslim-majority societies striving to harmonize tradition with m...

Wasi (also spelled waasi) is a Yoruba Islamic sermon in which oniwasi (admonisher) communicates religious injunctions during religious or social occasions. A hallmark of the Yoruba Muslims’ cultural identity and an important vocation for Muslim scholars, particularly during the fasting month of Ramadan, wasi is conducted to remind the faithful of t...

It is with great honour and profound respect that we present this Festschrift, a collection of scholarly articles and reflections dedicated to celebrating the rich and inspiring legacy of Shaykh AbdulRaheem Ameenullahi al-Adabi Oniwasi Agbaye. A renowned disciple of Shaykh Kamalu-deen al-Adabi, the second National Missioner of Ansarul Islam Society...

This study examines the application of Tanqih al-Manath theory in the context of marriage law in Indonesia, a country with a complex legal landscape influenced by both Islamic and secular laws. The aim of this study is to explore how Tanqih al-Manath theory can be effectively employed to resolve marriage law issues, providing a nuanced understandin...

COVID-19, a disease caused by a novel coronavirus, is widely believed to have originated in animals. In the Islamic worldview, animals, including those suspected to be reservoirs of coronavirus or other zoonotic viruses, are divine creations, guided by divine command and sustained through divine provisions. Based on content analysis of relevant lit...

This study explores widows and orphans’ management within the Islamic context, specifically focusing on the efforts of Ansarul Islam Society of Nigeria. It aims to shed light on the multifaceted dimensions of Islamic social finance as employed by this organization to uplift and support vulnerable members of the community. The study adopts a qualita...

The study is a biography of M.S. Cole, a Christian missionary who first translated the meaning of the Qur’an into Yoruba in 1906. His work was also the earliest known translation of the meaning of the Qur’an into any African language.

The work by M.S. Cole, a Christian missionary, was the first translation of the meaning of the Qur’an into Yoruba, published in 1906. It was also the earliest known translation of the meaning of the Qur’an into any African language.

The study examines Islamic perspective on the human propensity to live and survive as much as possible, and to cope with the death when it becomes inevitable. It explains how the urge to live and survive is intrinsic to all living beings, including the prophets of God who are exemplars of upright characters. It explores ways of immortalizing one’s...

Memorisation of the Qur’ān occupies a central position in Muslim conception of religious education. The awareness of preserving the Qur’ān through memorisation (ḥifẓ) is becoming prevalent and is still continued in these modern days in many educational institutions in many parts of the Muslim countries. This article examines different methods of Qu...

Diversity is a common characteristic of the natural world. It has made life on earth habitable and nature resourceful and from which humans derive great strength and happiness. Diversity is one of the main factors that make one animal species prey on another. Nevertheless, such diversity does not lead to the war of all against all in the wildlife b...

Al Quran is the basis for all aspects of Muslim’s life. These words of Allah are to guide us in every phase of our journey to become ummatan wasata including teaching and learning. Remembering is essential in one’s attempt to learn. Remembering involves one core cognitive process known as memory. This research aims to explore and form a better unde...

This study analyses the first translation of the meaning of the Qur'an into Yoruba, a language spoken mainly in south-western Nigeria in West Africa. Yorubaland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was a theatre of serious engagement between Muslims and Christian missionaries, during which a proliferation of translations of religious texts pla...

This study considers the emergence of the Christian-led Yoruba translations of the Qur'an in south-western Nigeria. The proliferation of translations of religious texts played a significant role in Christian engagement with Islam in Africa in the nineteenth century. With their contact with the European Christians in Sierra Leone following the aboli...

Halal and haram are evaluative concepts that refer to what is permissible or impermissible, respectively, in Islamic law. When applied to minerals, plants, or animals, the duo refers to what is permissible or impermissible to consume therein. There has been upsurge in the production and proliferation of halal products which enormously serves the Mu...

Species diversity has been the hallmark of biosphere and invaluable resource for human being as well as for the natural environment. In order to appreciate and conserve these diverse species which are constituents of nature, different values from different frames of references have been proffered. This study examines biological diversity from the Q...

This study inquires into the value system associated with two epistemological conceptual schemes of the Qur’ān, i.e., āyah (sign) and ḥikmah (wisdom). The claim that knowledge is neutral and that it is the person or society that decides its function has helped dissociate academic endeavours from social and religious values. In many respects, the ra...

Khilafah has been a symbol of the Muslim political system and Islamic politics has often been identified as Khilafah in the same structure it took form in the past. This study argues that Muslims exhausted their energy on political discourse at the expense of other factors which are important for preparing the ground for political maturity. An atte...

This study inquires into the value system associated with two epistemological conceptual schemes of the Qur'ān, namely, āyah (sign) and ḥikmah (wisdom). In many respects, the rapid accumulation of all types of knowledge and the progress in the predominantly secular science and technology of modern times have marginalised values from scientific inqu...

Civilization, along with its defining parameters of progress and development, has become a buzzword of our contemporary age. Modern civilization has brought unprecedented achievements, expanding our horizons of the natural world and extending the frontiers of science and technology. Presented with the marvels of modern secular civilization with the...

To safeguard the religio-cultural values of the media audience against the repugnant values often propagandized in the mass media, there has been emphasis on the ethical codes of media producers, reporters and the nature of the message itself. Aiming to achieve the same goal, this study underscores the ethical principles of responsibility and accou...

This study elaborates on al-Ghazalī's critical inquiry into major intellectual traditions that hold some bearing on religion, with special reference to his sustained critique of pure reason as introduced to Islamic metaphysics by philosophers. Al-Ghazalī's critique scheme places high premium on the standards of rationality, yet exhibits the deficie...

Toshihiko Izutsu introduces semantic structural analysis to study the structures of the Qur‟ānic worldview. According to this theory of analysis, each language contains a peculiar weltanschauung which causes its speakers to view the world in a way different from the speakers of other languages. Thus by analytic study of the conceptual key-terms of...

The goal of responsible engineers is the creation of useful and safe technological products and commitment to public health, while respecting the autonomy of the clients and the public. Because engineers often face moral dilemma to resolve such issues, different engineers have chosen different course of actions depending on their respective moral v...

This paper examines the structural semantic approach based on the theory of linguistic relativity to scriptural language as exemplified in Toshihiko Izutsu’s studies of the Qur’anic weltanschauung. According to this theory, each language contains a particular worldview that causes its speakers to view the world in a way different from the speakers...

This paper examines the structural semantic approach based on the theory of linguistic relativity to scriptural language as exemplified in Toshihiko Izutsu’s studies of the Qur’anic weltanschauung. According to this theory, each language contains a particular worldview that causes its speakers to view the world in a way different from the speakers...

Ḥijāb, an Islamic ethico-religious and socio-cultural symbol, is increasingly becoming visible in the Western public arena giving rise to a debate over its compatibility with dominant Western culture and values. Placing it in an argumentative genre, the paper highlights the sociological, religious and cultural rationales for the increasing visibili...

Belief in God's message and messengers is a basic article of Islamic faith. Though it is sent to all humankind, revelation is not communicable directly from God to everyone at all times. The channel through which revelation became known to humankind is prophethood. Both revelation and prophethood are thus intertwined; the explanation of one will re...

This chapter provides an in-depth analysis of one of the major essentials of the Islamic worldview i.e., the concept of the last day. Belief in al-Ākhirah is a basic article of Islamic faith, along with belief in God, His angels His Books, and His Messengers, Divine Decree and Predestination. After the doctrine of tawḥīd and Revelation, al-Ākhirah...

There have been several projects to provide transliteration algorithms, most of which, however, are machine-based transliteration of Arabic names into English which are designed mainly for cataloging and information retrieval purposes. Such works, generally, do not cover all Arabic words and are not available for individual users. This paper report...

Islam states that both natural phenomena and humanity are cre-ated in the best conceivable pattern. Yet the physical world expe-riences occasional disasters that threaten sustainable develop-ment. This study seeks to provide a framework for understanding this phenomenon within the Islamic ethico-religious perspective by focusing on such natural dis...

This study examines the doctrine of spiritual ascent, central to mystical experience, as taught in theistic mysticism, as exemplified in Christianity and Islam, and non-theistic or monistic mysticism, as manifested in Buddhism. The study highlights the common characteristics and the variations in the teachings of spiritual ascent according to these...

Islam states that both natural phenomena and humanity are created in the best conceivable pattern. Yet the physical world experiences occasional disasters that threaten sustainable development. This study seeks to provide a framework for understanding this phenomenon within the Islamic ethico-religious perspective by focusing on such natural disast...

Books, journal articles, MA and PhD theses in Islamic studies are increasingly being written in English, and therefore many terms and concepts have been translated into English. But translation can only give an approximate meaning of some concepts, particularly for language pairs that do not share the same worldview. As a result, there is a growing...

Mohammad Arkoun has been credited with the much needed attention to the Qur’ānic hermeneutics. A Textual analysis of his writings shows that his major concern is the methodology of interpretation and that he studied the Qur’ān for the sake of methodology. He questions the authenticity of the Qur’ān as well as its truth claim. His presentation reads...

Debate over the Hindu and Muslim religious identity, as well as the nature of the two communities’ interaction, has generated different answers. To some, it has been an interaction full of conflict and conflict-resolution between two irreconcilable faiths. To others, it remains impossible to reconstruct their history as one of convergence or diverg...

The international conference on Islamization of human science was held in conjunction with the tenth anniversary of establishment of the Kulliyyah (Faculty) of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences IRKHS), the biggest Kulliyyah in the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). The theme of the conference was "Islamization of Human Sc...