Sultan Storms UNILORIN For Al-Ilory

Date: 2012-08-02

The Faculty of Arts of the University of Ilorin is set to thrill the academic community and the larger public as it stages a commemorative international conference on the life and works of Shaykh Adam Abdullahi Al-Ilory (1917 -1992). The conference holds between 24 and 28 August, 2012 at the University Auditorium.

The conference will avail many members of the academic community the opportunity of meeting the Sultan of Sokoto and co-Chairman of the Nigeria Inter-religious Council (NIREC), Alhaji Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar, who will chair the opening ceremony.

With about 100 abstracts already submitted from Nigeria, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Germany, and Sudan, among others, the conference promises to be a watershed in the annals of the University of Ilorin with the quality and quantity of personalities it will draw to the University.

The Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, will be royal host at the opening of the conference that will be graced by the Governor of Kwara State, Alhaji Abdulfatahi Ahmed, as the Special Guest of Honour.

As the Main Organising Committee of the Conference under the Chairmanship of the Dean of Arts, Prof. Charles Bodunde, keeps working on making the conference a huge success, a high-powered Sub-Committee chaired by Prof. R. D. Abubakre is also working on the submitted papers, assessing, reviewing, editing and preparing them for publication outside the country.

Shaykh Adam Abdul-Baqi Habibubullah Abdullah Al-Ilori was born in 1917 by an Ilorin preacher father married to a Beninoise princess in 1917 in Wasa, Dendi Local Government of the old Dahomey (now Republic of Benin). He started his early education under the tutelage of his father and the quest for more knowledge made him to embark on several years of learning under the leading scholars of the day in Ibadan, Lagos and Kano after which he proceeded to Cairo in 1946.

The authorities of Al-Azhar University were impressed by the depth of his knowledge of Arabic language, literature and linguistics as well as his inimitable mastery of Islamic arts and sciences that they awarded him a certificate in Arabic and Islamic Studies.

He subsequently travelled to several Arab nations, meeting and interacting with eminent scholars.

Shaykh Al-Ilory founded his famous Arabic Training Centre (Markaz ut Ta'limil 'Arabi 'al-Islami) in 1952 in Abeokuta, Ogun State, which he relocated to Agege, Lagos in 1957. The school attracted students from across Nigeria and the West African sub-region, many of whom have today become Vice-Chancellors, professors, judges, doctors, lawyers, administrators, etc. He wrote over 100 publications including about 50 books and participated in several international conferences.

Source

 


Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Haliru Dantoro     Deji Ajani     Road Transport Employers Association Of Nigeria     Fola Consultant     Harrison Osauwagboe     Maigida Soludero Transit     Allocation     Ghali Alaaya     Zaratu Umar     Ajase-Ipo     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Dunmade     Igbomina     Kayode Ogunlowo     Katibi Ibraheem Adeola     Post-utme     Funmilayo Zubair     Abdulquawiy Olododo     Yunus Lawal     LEAH Charity Foundation     Abdulhakeem Adelaja Amao     Bola Magaji     Isiaka Abdulrazak     Haruna Tambiri Mohammed     Elerin Of Erin-Ile     Omotoso Musa     Adeleke Ogungbe     Ajikobi     Ladi Hassan     Binta Abubakar-Mora     Tuesday Assayomo     GANZY     Code Of Conduct Tribunal     Simeon Sayomi     Christopher Ayeni     Hakeem Idris     Adebayo Salami     Jebba     Oba David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Gobir Organization Foundation     Oluwole Dupe     Aliyu Alhassan     Rebecca Bake     Rueben Parejo     Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen     Adanla-Irese     Kwara Restoration Project     Lucky Omoluwa     Kwara State Infrastructure Development Fund     Abdul-Rasheed Na\'Allah     IYA YUSUF     Akorede     Ibrahim Oniye     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Garba Idris Ajia     Timothy Akangbe     Mashood Dauda     Ganiyu Taofiq     Cornelius Adebayo     Kwarareports     Aisha Ahman-Pategi     Ojuekun Sarumi     Abdulsalam Firdaous Amosa     Chief Imam Of Offa     Ibikunle Ogunleye     Christopher Odetunde     Olatunji Abdulmumeen     Laboratory-to-Product     Monthly Sanitation     Benin Republic     Sunset Workers     ASKOMP     Aliyu Salihu     Doyin Agbamu     David Oyedepo     Khadijat Ayoola Yusuf     Bello Taoheed Abubakar    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Bankole Omishore     Obayomi Azeez     Razak Atunwa     Isaac Aderemi Kolawole     Amina Susa\'a De Ahmed     Yusuf AbdulRasheed     Michael Nzwekwe     Ronke Adeyemi     Abdulraheem Olesin     Ajeigbe     Logun     Omupo     Kayode Oyin-Zubair     Bayo Ajia     Oja-Oba     NIPR     Baba Issa Awoye     KWSUED     Ekweremadu     Labaeka     Joshua Adeyemi Adimula     Pacify Labs     Abdullahi Biffo     Tafida Of Ilorin     Gbugbu     Asa     Samuel Adaramola     Yoonus Kola Olatinwo     Senate Presidency     Christopher Ayeni     GANZY     Jide Oyinloye     Code Of Conduct     Bola Magaji     Lateef Alagbonsi     Ajidagba     Samuel Adedoyin     Ilorin East/South Federal Constituency     Sidikat Alaya     Suleiman Abubakar     HAMFAT Clinic And Maternity     Balikis Jawondo     Dumagi     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Demola Banu     Iponrin     Bayer AG     Baakini     Rasaq Jimoh     Ahmed Alhasssan     Cassava Growers\' Association     Hydro-electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Ramat Oganija     Ilorin West     Wahab Kunle Shittu     Ebola     Olusin Of Ijara Isin     Onilu     Funmilayo Braithwaite     Taofik Abdulkareem     Smart School     Garment Factory     NTA Ilorin     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     Kwarareports.com     Issa Memunat Moyosore     Musa Alhassan Buge     Yeketi     Moshood Mustapha     Abdulazeez Uthman     NYSC     Kulende-UITH     Mahee Abdulkadir     John Kehinde Salako     Idi-Ape     New Naira Notes     Gbajabiamila