{"id":179,"date":"2025-05-07T17:35:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T17:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/natais.org.ng\/journal\/?post_type=article&#038;p=179"},"modified":"2025-05-08T17:14:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T17:14:55","slug":"adam-al-iluri-and-neo-ijtihad-an-examination-of-his-legal-views-on-rama%e1%b8%8dan-fasting-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/natais.org.ng\/journal\/article\/adam-al-iluri-and-neo-ijtihad-an-examination-of-his-legal-views-on-rama%e1%b8%8dan-fasting-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0100dam Al-Il\u016br\u012b And Neo-Ijtih\u0101d: An Examination of His Legal Views On Rama\u1e0d\u0101n Fasting In Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abstract:<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shaykh \u0100dam Ibn Abdullah al-Il\u016br\u012b was one of the rare erudite scholars in the African continent in the twentieth century who contributed a lot to the development of various Islamic disciplines. The Arabic School (Markazu\u2019t-Tacl\u012bmi\u2019l-\u2018Arab\u012b Al-Isl\u0101m\u012b) established by him in 1952 has produced several Islamic scholars who specialised in different areas of Islamic disciplines. The objective of this study is to examine some of the neo-Ijtih\u0101d exercises of Al-Il\u016br\u012b on the jurisprudential issues surrounding the observance of Rama\u1e0d\u0101n fasting in Nigeria such as the universal and geographical application of moon sighting, personality of the moon-sighter, number of moon-sighters, textual and artificial calculation of moon sighting, and the day of doubt (Yawm As-Sakk) which always serves as a jurisprudential controversy on the commencement and termination of Rama\u1e0d\u0101n fasting among Nigerian Muslims. Research method used in this study is expository, descriptive, and analytical so as to come up with the relevance of Al-Il\u016br\u012b\u2019s neo-Ijtih\u0101d legal exercise to the Nigerian environs. Conclusively, the study makes a finding that local related jurisprudential issues should be better handled by local Islamic scholars than consulting foreign materials from authors who may not be aware of the situation and circumstances peculiar to the environment. The paper therefore recommends that Nigerian Muslims should inculcate making use of the neo-Ijtih\u0101d legal exercise of their local scholars as a token of appreciation of their scholarship and a form of encouragement for them to do more in proffering solutions to some emerging problems among the Nigerian Muslims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdf-viewer-block-standard\" style=\"text-align:left\"><div class=\"uploaded-pdf\"><a href=\"https:\/\/natais.org.ng\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2e.pdf\" data-width=\"\" data-height=\"\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The objective of this study is to examine some of the neo-Ijtih\u0101d exercises of Al-Il\u016br\u012b on the jurisprudential issues surrounding the observance of Rama\u1e0d\u0101n fasting in 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