The contribution of Islam to national life in West Africa

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Title:	The contribution of Islam to national life in West Africa
Year:	1956
Periodical:	Oversea Education
Volume:	28
Issue:	3
Pages:	99-105
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	Islam political change
Abstract:	Muslims, Christians and Jews, as theists, reject Marxism, Humanism and certain eastern religions. Islam and Christian are both universal, but more than international, being opposed to the 'Nationalism' of the sovereign state. Neither is partial to democracy - the rule of the majority yet both can make terms with tolerant nationalism Christianity by using the analogy of a body and its members and Islam through Ijma or consensus of the community. Ijmathe accumulating, pressure of opinion cannot indeed abrogate a ruling of the Prophet or the Koran, but can allow it to lapse, as in the case of slavery. Shari'a, or sacred law, has been supplemented by penal, commercial and civil codes based on European mode is Islamic theologians have failed to reconcile their faith with modern science. Perhaps in Northern Nigeria Christian theologians will support Islamic theism by supporting the idea of modern and traditional studies in the same college.