Challenges of Al-Fara'id application in a multi-religious society: the case of Yoruba Muslims of Lagos and Oyo States, Southwestern Nigeria

• Main Authors: Busari, Jamıu Muhammad, Ashafa, Saheed Afolabi, Busari, Saheed Abdullahi
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English; English
• Published: UM Press 2024
• Subjects: KBP524 Aḥwāl shakhṣīyah
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/115349/13/115349_Challenges%20of%20Al-Faraid%20Application%20in%20Lagos%20and%20Oyo%20States.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/115349/1/Challenges%20of%20Al-Faraid%20Application%20in%20Lagos%20and%20Oyo%20States.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/115349/2/Challenges%20of%20Al-Faraid%20Application%20in%20Lagos%20and%20Oyo%20States.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/115349/; https://doi.org/10.22452

Yoruba Muslims of Southwestern Nigeria are among the foremost West Africans who had the earliest contact with Islam before the advent of British colonization in the 1850s. By 1775 C.E, Islam had been firmly entrenched in the nooks and crannies of Yorubaland, Southwest Nigeria, where Mosques and Madā...