Shaykh Taj Al Adab’s impact of scholarship was felt not only in Ilorin but in Okene, Ibadan and Abeokuta. WHAT A HISTORY MASTERFULLY CRAFTED BY TRUE BORN SON OF ILORIN KUDOS TO YOU BROTHER.BUT AFONJA THE GREATEST WARRIOR STILL LIVE ON IN OUR HEART DESPITE THE BETRAYER BY THE SO CALL FULANI.REST IN PEACE MY HERO.LONG LIVE KWARA STATE LONG LIVE ILORIN AFONJA. With the growth of Islam in Ilorin and more, particularly after the consolidation of the Ilorin emirate, attempts were made to stop the practice of the traditional Yorùbá religion. The task of balancing and interweaving of aims have not been uniformly agreed upon and thus remains a big challenge to Muslims who must engage with both systems of education. This blog invites people who are interested in questions of inequality and education to follow the debates of the multi-disciplinary Winter Academy and Conference “Inequality, Education and Social Power: Transregional Perspectives”.

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. The writer failed to tell us how the ilorin treacherous people were routed by ibadan warlords at osogbo. Who wrote this and how can we get more? Al Adab’s school attracted Muslim pupils from other parts of Yorùbáland such as Ijebu-Ode, Ibadan, and Osogbo and graduates of the school spread across Yorùbáland, Markaz in the Face of Further attrition of Integrity – The Barometer. He was very active in Ibadan, Abeokuta, Lagos and Ekitiland, especially in Ikere-Ekiti. This led to the exodus of its inhabitants. He refused to honour the second call on him by the Emir to come down to Ilorin. deliberately left the wing of their command, to make the penetration of Ilorin army possible. Jamatu’l Nasru Islam also coordinates Islamic activities in the Northern part of the country. That would have been a complete story.what I still don’t understand is why the ibadan warlords did not even take over ilorin. Ansar-ud-deen society is a religious organization that contributes to the building of morals in people, their religious knowledge and religious practices. Prince Atiba of Ago and Timi.

Afterwards the services of the scholars were relegated to the background once new breed western scholars have been produced.

Its potential to correct the inequalities of the two systems is thus restrained. The history has nothing but a sad memory of how pride, insolence, treachery, envy, tyranny…of yoruba political leaders led to the downfall of a once thriving kingdom.

Both events took place in Berlin in November 2014 and were convened by the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Foundation – German Humanities Institutes Abroad. This organization began as an Islamic school before it became an organization. the writer of the piece must be ashamed of himself, its tragedy what the yorubas of ilorin have been become, a slave of sokoto, shameful. It was officially opened in 1981. This restricted mindset against a complex need helps to reinforce the structural inequality between the two systems.

They penetrated the ranks of the Yoruba leaders to cause disaffection and personality clash amongst them. Any action taken as a result of information, analysis, or advertisement on this site is ultimately the responsibility of the reader. With the growth of Islam in Ilorin and more, particularly after the consolidation of the Ilorin emirate, attempts were made to stop the practice of the traditional Yorùbá religion. The Redeemed Christian Church of God was founded by Reverend Josiah Olufemi Akindayomi in 1952. Some of these were retrained into the western system and were the first teachers used to establish the western education system. At the time llorin was preparing for the impending war with the combined forces of the Yoruba and the Bariba’s from all fronts, old rivalry, sharp differences and fears of Bariba domination were seriously drumming in the war camp assembled by Alaafin Oluewu. These books were studied by Ahmad b. Abu Bakr (b. But for more than a century this mosque could not cope with the huge growth in population of the Muslim Ummah city. the Bariba warrior and invited Yoruba chiefs were present the modus operandi for prosecuting the war to overrun llorin and reclaim the old Oyo empire’s territories were concluded. He was ordained as a pastor of The Redeemed Christian Church of God in 1975. The author may or may not have a financial interest in any company or advertiser referenced. May we be reasonable enough to learn from history. @Adeleke Kupoluyi. The Ilorin Central Mosque is an eternal reminder of architecture.

He ordered Lanloke the Chief of Ogodo to ravage the suburbs of Oyo and in fact threaten the city. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. This explains why some of them made up their minds to undermine the proclaimed interest of the joint Yoruba forces against Ilorin. As a result of successive Ilorin victories over the Oyo forces, the powers and influence of the Alaafin of Oyo continued to dwindle to the point of their been limited to the capital. Read More: How to Start a Church in Nigeria. The Fulani had anticipated and prepared for the attack. One of such action of the Aare was his contact with Shehu Alimi through his friend Sholagberu.

Thenceforth the history of Islamic education became an unending dynamic of engagement with the challenges that the rival system of Western education has posed to Islamic education. Once again, the allied forces of the Yoruba were defeated. madrasah) have been hampered by the structural inequalities between the two system. In 2007 an attempt to bring the cultural icon to life was made. Apart from founding a school, he had earlier established an Arabic Printing Press. Ahmad b. Abi Bakr himself became a respected scholar and author in the early years of the twentieth century. It was founded as a non-profit organization. on, natural environment, vegetation, enormous land for agriculture and her staple grass that enticed cattlemen and their herds to the town. ( Log Out /  At the end of every year, the first week of December precisely, the church holds an event called Shiloh. The eleventh Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Zulu Gambari set up a committee. Their dealings influenced the course of the history of Ilorin in the path towards the establishment of an emirate and turning the town into a port of Arabic and Islamic erudition. This religious organization was founded by Sir Ahmadu Bello. I do not even know how I ended up here, but I thought this post was great. A noticeable number even went to Ilorin”. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. This event is attended by millions of people. These heroes of Ilorin arrived Ilorin at different times and in different circumstances. personally led a joint force of Sokoto and Gwandu warriors to aid llorin. The organization was formerly incorporated in 1927 prior to its formation in Lagos in 1923. He therefore persuaded Shehu Alimi to migrate into Ilorin town from Kuwo (a suburb of llorin) where he had then settled, after his Islamic evangelical mission to parts of Yoruba land, such as Oshogbo and even Oyo Ile’. He was rather boastful and care free about what the Alaafin would do. It was by these relations that the slave soldiers were turned to be used to attack those that were accused of being unfriendly to AbdulSalami’s leadership in the mosque. He supported llorin with his army, and was also involved in the diplomatic game, employed by the authority in llorin to play the Yoruba chiefs against one another”‘. There are over 50 million Christian in Nigeria as at today with different denominations.

The successful use of the slave soldiers by AbdulSalami and Shitta to terminate all form of oppositions to the realization of their political ambition in Ilorin, actually paved the way for the declaration of Ilorin as an emirate in about 1823 ‘*. The alliance of llorin with the Onikoyi eventually led to a war between the two. Bamgbaiye of Ede.

( Log Out /  At that time, the organization did not have much members and it started out with only twenty members. Change ). I have noticed that Ilorin people do not have a singular identity of their own. As the Imam of the mosque where the slave soldiers often congregate to perform their daily prayers, AbdulSalam and Shitta. All other building structures are dysfunctional or completely bad. Both Alaafin Oluewu and the Bariba warrior Wan kura were therefore rounded up. The Eleduwe War While a good number of Oyo migrants went to Kisi. Ilorin people has nothing to boast about in the history because it only shows the diplomatic slavery that the fulani’s subjected the one time yoruba town to. Any Muslim could actually vie for the position”.

The Mugbamugba War if u have material that can useful for me pls help, Your email address will not be published. On the other hand, the emirate army grew to be more confident and aggressive. requested him (the Alaafin} to pay him the traditional homage of a vassal”. By harking back to the glorious past of Muslim achievements in these fields, the purveyors of Islamisation of knowledge hopes to bring Muslims back into reckoning in the world of knowledge not limited to the religious sciences alone. on, natural environment, vegetation, enormous land for agriculture and her staple grass that enticed cattlemen and their herds to the town. Aliyu yunus is my name a phd student at university of kabangsaan malaysia . Understanding the situation as it was, the Alaafin began his reign by trying to consolidate the remaining loyalists to his institution and stretching arm of friendship to prominent chiefs around Oyo. accelerated the people’s migration to different directions. Subscribe to our mailing list and get interesting stuff and updates to your email inbox. it can clearly be know now that the people of ilorin are yorubas but led by muslim fulani to establish the religion of truth;ISLAM. They were scattered all over Yorubaland and this continued to be a source of worry for cities that had riot been touched by war. ( Log Out /  ( Log Out /  @kareem afonja i will like to connect you.

madrasah), especially since the government withdrawal from the provision of Western education from the late twentieth century. from where the battle took its name. After a short respite, the Yoruba re-organised and resolved to get rid of the Fulanis in llorin. Two years later, the church was set up and started with four members. He started the church at Willoughby Street, Ebute-Metta, Lagos with a house fellowship called, the Glory of God Fellowship. its really unfortunate. Not only are most of them former slaves, the are the descendants of a weak and treacherous lot. In addition to the mosque, a lot of changes have been introduced regarding the structure. Thus, Oyo was deserted and it went into ruins. It worked very hard to restore this beauty. The news of the death of Warukura and Alaafin Oluewu readily aggravated the confusion in old Oyo. The llorin people referred to him as Ikoko (Wolf)” because he was commonly known for destroying every living being in the area he captured. Afonja’s military acumen, al-Salih’s Islamic propagation activities and acquaintance, Solagberu’s Oke Sunna Muslims community and AbdusSalam leadership cleverness turned Ilorin into a city that is.

llorin quickly seized the opportunity to penetrate the Yoruba lines and drive the soldiers out of the battle field. In the religion of Islam they found a common index of identity.

Alaafin Amodo’s interest in Ogodo was to renew the blood ties with the Yoruba population in the town, use their influence and contacts to rebuild the powers of his institution. and the leader of the Bariba allied forces, Warikura, was indeed a turning point in the History of Ilorin as a sovereign state and power; the entire politics of Yorubaland and warfare that characterized the whole of the nineteenth century. This spiritual aim of Islamic education will always clash with the varied and largely secular aims of western education. The Emir therefore decided to punish the Alaafin. ( Log Out /  Research Project (to be discussed at the Winter Academy) by Sakariyau Alabi Aliyu. Western system of education came as powerful system, having state and missionary financial backing against the Islamic education system that is dependent largely on the personal efforts and financial support of the scholars.