Browsing by Author "Adeshina Lukman"

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    IMPACT OF THE MODERNIZATION OF ARABIC AND ISLAMIC EDUCATION IN ILORIN EMIRATE, 1943-2015
    (Kaduna Journal of Humanities, 2024) Adeshina Lukman; Suleiman AbdulRahman Adebayo
    The much emphasis, which Islam laid on knowledge as a criterion for effective worship of Allah (God) necessitated the need for people of Ilorin Emirate to establish various traditional Islamic schools. The presence of Islamic knowledge in Ilorin following the formation of a theocratic government by the way of an Emirate in 1823 attracted a large number of Muslims from inside and outside the Oyo empire who were in search of Islamic learning, this therefore, called for the establishment of more advanced Arabic and Islamic educational institutions in Ilorin. This emphasis of Islam on knowledge acquisition as well as the contemporary educational challenges therefore gave birth to the changing of phases of Arabic and Islamic learning in Ilorin Emirate from 1940s till the present time whose effect has been the modernization of Arabic and Islamic learning in Ilorin with its attendant impacts. Using oral sources and secondary sources, the paper examines the transformation of Arabic and Islamic school system in Ilorin Emirate from traditional to advanced form as well as the impacts of the modernization/westernization on the Arabic and Islamic learning in Ilorin Emirate and beyond.
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    Socio-Economic Impact of Ileya Festival in Ilorin, 1990-2020
    (Department of History and International Studies, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Niger, State, 2022) Adeshina Lukman
    Ileya festival is one the Muslims festivals known as Eid-l-Adha or Eid-l-Kabir which involves slaughtering of ram(s) by every adult and capable Muslim. Ileya festival was annually celebrated with pomp and pageantry in Ilorin where many sons and daughters of the city usually come home from far and near to take part in the festival celebration. Thus, the city of Ilorin always witnessed high influx of people from few days to the day of the Ileya festival and there was a number of age long interesting socio-economic activities that sprang up in the course of the celebration of the festival. Most of these activities have become part of the cultural practices of the people. This paper examines the socio-economic impacts of Ileya festival in Ilorin. It analyses the social and economic activities of the festival as well as their impacts. The method of research and information gathering used were secondary and primary sources, mostly, oral interviews with old, young men and women in Ilorin as well as ram sellers, livestock feed sellers, petty traders, market brokers and Local Government revenue officials, amongst others.