Abu Bakr Mahmoud Gumi
Sheikh Abu Bakr Mahmoud Gumi ( Arabic أبو بكر محمود غومي, DMG Abū Bakr Maḥmūd Ġūmī ; born 1922 in Gummi Village , Sokoto District (now Zamfara ), Nigeria ; died September 11, 1992 in London ), known as Abubakar Gumi , was a Nigerian Islamic scholar and leader of the Salafist movement in Nigeria. He held the title of "Grand Kadi " (highest Islamic appellate judge) of northern Nigeria from 1962 to 1967 and during his time enforced Sharia law in the region. He was known for opposing the traditional Sufi brotherhood affiliated Muslim authorities in northern Nigeria who, according to him, practice mysticism and syncretism, and was known to have helped promote a Wahhabist- inspired reforming Islam .
life and work
Abu Bakr Gumi was born in 1922. He received elementary classes in the Koran , Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) and Arabic at home , then attended regular schools and became a certified teacher. He continued his education at the School of Arabic Studies in Kano , specializing in Arabic language and Islamic studies. He then traveled to the Bakht-ar-Ruda Institute in Sudan , where he received a degree in Sharia law .
He had a long history of fighting colonialism in his country and was associated with political leader Ahmadu Bello (1909-1966), a descendant of Usman Dan Fodio , who was the region's prime minister in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1976 Abu Bakr Gumi became Nigeria's Grand Mufti.
After Ahmadu Bello's assassination, Gumi developed a network of followers that became the first reformist Muslim organization in northern Nigeria in the 1970s, and in 1978 the Jama'atu Izalatil Bid'ah Wa Ikamatis Sunnah ( Arabic Ǧamāʿat Izālat al-bidʿa wa- iqāmat as-sunna ; "Society for the Elimination of Bidʿa and Establishment of the Sunnah " (see the main article Yan Izala )) was founded.
Abu Bakr Gumi is the author of various books on various Islamic topics. He translated the meaning of the Holy Koran, as well as several Arabic books written in Arabic by Nigerian scholars , into the Hausa language , the most widely spoken commercial language in west-central Africa. This is - according to his biography on the website of the International King Faisal Prize (KFIP), which he received in 1987 in the category Merits to Islam - as one of his most important achievements, as there are "millions of Muslims in Hausa-speaking communities in Niger , Ghana , Togo , Ivory Coast and Chad as well as Nigeria benefited ".
Abu Bakr Gumi was a member of various large international, national and regional Islamic organizations: the World Mosque Council , the Fiqh Academy in Mecca , the Islamic Research Academy in Cairo , the Supreme Council of the Islamic University in Medina , a founding member of the World Islamic League , the Ahmadu Bello Society , Council for Senior Scientists in Nigeria and Chairman of the Education Council of the Nigerian Education Center.
He died in a hospital in London .
His firstborn son Ahmad Gumi is also an Islamic scholar and doctor.
Publications (selection)
Source: worldcat.org
- Translation of the meaning of the Holy Quran into the Hausa language
- True Faith in Accordance with Sharia *
- Answer to the meaning of the Koran
See also
References and footnotes
- ↑ kingfaisalprize.org (arab. , Engl. )
- ↑ kingfaisalprize.org
- ↑ Abu Bakr Gumi (1922–1992) (Roman Loimeier, Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World)
- ↑ Hausa is one of the three main languages in Nigeria (Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba).
- ↑ kingfaisalprize.org (arab. , Engl. )
- ↑ KFIP
- ↑ kingfaisalprize.org
- ↑ Gummi, Abubakar Mahmud ( English ) worldcat.org. Retrieved November 5, 2019.
literature
- Thurston, Alexander: "Gumi, Abubakar." In Oxford Islamic Studies Online. Oxford Islamic Studies Online, http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t343/e0059
- Ramzi Ben Amara: The Izala Movement in Nigeria: Its Split, Relationship to Sufis and Perception of Sharīʿa Re-Implementation . Dissertation University of Bayreuth, 2011. Digitized
- Ismaila A. Tsiga: Sheikh Abubakar Gumi: Where I Stand. Ibadan, Nigeria: Spectrum Books Ltd., 1992.
- Jonathan NC Hill: “ Sufism in Northern Nigeria: Force for Counter-Radicalization? ” May 2010 - ssi . armywarcollege .edu
- John N. Paden: Faith and Politics in Nigeria: Nigeria as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World. (Pivotal State Series). 2008
- Roman Loimeier: "Abu Bakr Gumi (1922–1992)" - Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World ( p. 8 )
Web links
- Shaikh Abu Bakr Mahmoud Gumi (English / Arabic ) - KFIP
- Obituary: Sheikh Abubakar Mahmud Gumi - independent.co.uk
- Gene. Abubakar Gumi “Only Muslims can defeat Boko Haram” Brigadier-General Gumi (retd), is the son of the revered late Grand Khadi of Northern Nigeria, Sheik Abubakar Gumi, and brother of Kaduna-based Islamic scholar, Sheikh Mahmud Gumi
- Sheikh Abubakar Gummi: 13 Years After (Garba Isa)
- Sheikh Abubakar Mahmud Gumi (Siyasa Tafi Sallah)
- Sex in front of Sokoto's grand cadre
| Abu Bakr Mahmoud Gumi (alternative names of the lemma) |
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| Abu Bakr Gumi; Abu Bakr Mahmoud Gumi; Abubakar Gumi, Abu Bakar Gumi; Abubakar Mahmud gum; Abubakar Mahmud Gumi; Abubakar gum |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gumi, Abu Bakr Mahmoud |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | أبو بكر غومي |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Islamic reformer in Nigeria |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rubber, Sukoto District , Nigeria |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 11, 1992 |
| Place of death | London |