How colonization derailed the course of Islamic education in Nigeria was covered previously in Part 1 By the late 1980s, nationwide economic and socio-political instability put...
As the Khan family sits down to breakfast on a Sunday morning, their youngest son arrives with an ill-mannered friend. Meanwhile, the elder son's room smells...
The history of Islam in Nigeria is not well-known to many Muslims outside of the country, or the continent. Many people know Nigeria as the most...
Yasin Rahman spirals into depression, leading him to a rash action. Later, he visits the highliner's shipyard, where a boy gives him some advice.
Behind the walls of a prisoner-of-war camp during World War I, Germany and the Ottoman Empire waged an unconventional battle: a fight for the minds and...
From the MuslimMatters Bookshelf is a monthly column from MM staff members on their latest reads – the good, the bad, the intriguing, and the Islamic....
“Why did they put that on him? I don’t like it….Ugghh….Why?”, grumbled my collaborator during an academic meeting about our research project last week. He was...
