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| Title: | The private papers of Alfa Ya'qub of Ikirun, Nigeria, c. 1890-1965: An initial overview |
| Author: | Ogunbiyi, Isaac A. |
| Year: | 1999 |
| Periodical: | Sudanic Africa |
| Volume: | 10 |
| Pages: | 111-132 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Nigeria |
| Subjects: | ulema biographies (form) History and Exploration colonialism Religion and Witchcraft Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) education |
| About person: | Shaykh Ya'qub b. Muammad al-Mukhtar (1890-1965) |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/25653328 |
| Abstract: | Shaykh Ya'qub b. Muammad al-Mukhtar (1890-1965), known as 'Ibn Imam al-Jami' Ikirun, is the only Muslim scholar in Yorubaland, Nigeria, to have the bulk of his private papers preserved for purposes of research and record. Based on these private papers, which are held at the Centre of Arabic Documentation at the University of Ibadan, the present author reconstructs the life history of Alfa Ya'q¯ub and describes his activities as a healer and as a scholar, his publications, and his interest in spreading literacy in the Arabic language. Alfa Ya'q¯ub was one of the earliest Yoruba scholars to pioneer the publication of materials existing locally in handwritten form, thus facilitating their wider dissemination. He was also a pioneer in the field of Arabic education in the 1940s in his hometown Ikirun and was involved in the establishment of the first Muslim primary school in Ikirun in 1948. The biographical sketch ends with the Arabic text and English translation of ten lines in praise of Ya'q¯ub by Imam A.hmad b. Tamim b. 'Ali b. 'Isa, Ilorin, and a letter from Ya'qub to his publisher in Egypt. Notes, ref. |
