Browsing by Author "Suleiman AbdulRahman Adebayo"

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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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    Struggle and Resort to Charcoal Energy for Livelihood Sustenance in the Cosmopolitan Ilorin Emirate: A Study on Bio-Inspired-Intelligence
    (Department of History and International Relations, Veritas University, (The Catholic University of Nigeria), Abuja, Nigeria., 2025) Suleiman AbdulRahman Adebayo; Sidiq Sidikat Ahmed; Abdulbaki Abdulwaheed Shola; Ajayi Olalekan Raymond
    The use of charcoal (wooden coal) and firewood intensified worldwide since the Stone Age and Neolithic period. Its usage in ancient times symbolised one of the features of the world's social order. The abundance of wooden materials interfaces with the culture and traditions of the respective regions of the world. Varied intellects, knowledge, politics, and challenges of individual regional people necessitated the applications of wooden coal/firewood to their respective Indigenous industrial, manufacturing, and household productions and consumptions vis-à-vis subsequent transitions. Since the second half of the Eighteenth Century, Western world nations have advanced fossil fuel use during the Industrial Revolution to drastically reduce the need for charcoal/firewood. Such advancement led to the spread of fossil fuel to Africa, but relatively reduced the use of charcoal/firewood in all facets of her production. However, since the beginning of the Twenty-first Century, the sub-regional Africans have been immensely relegated to the great usage of charcoal/firewood. This paper appraised the compelling factors for gross charcoal usage and traditional usage of charcoal among Africans, using the cosmopolitan Ilorin Emirate as a case study. The work examines the fossil fuel cost concerning the Ilorin People’s standard of living to measure why the people converted to charcoal mainly as a source of energy. The method used comprised oral interviews, participant observation, sampling, comparative and text content analysis. The work concluded that while the Ilorin Emirate had relatively sustained the traditional usages of charcoal, varied intellects, knowledge, policies, and costly fossil fuel products have compelled its people to fully embrace the usages of charcoal for production.