448 research outputs found
IBN RUSD, Abu-l-Walid Muhammad b. Ahmad (m. 520/1126), Al-Bayan wa-l-tahsil wa-l-sarh wa-l-tawyih wa-l-ta'lil fi masa'il al-Mustajraya, 1984 [RESEÑA]
No full textReseña del libro Al-Bayan wa-l-tahsil wa-l-sarh wa-l-tawyih wa-l-ta'lil fi masa'il al-Mustajraya, de Abu-l-Walid Muhammad b. Ahmad Ibn Rusd, publicado en Dar al-garb al-islami, del año 1984.Peer reviewe
Conflict of law and the methodology of Tarjīẖ : a study in Islamic legal theory
No full textIslamic law never achieved unity but expressed itself in, at least, four surviving schools. More interestingly, contemporary Muslim communities are still divided among themselves on a number of issues related to their laws. This work describes how problem of legal conflicts have been tackled by Muslim jurists. It is an attempt to examine closely the phenomenon of conflict in Islamic law from the standpoint of usūl-al-fiqh or Islamic legal theory. In fact, much is heard nowadays of the contradiction in the body of Islamic law. Whilst in contrast, little is presented in terms of the methodology of removing this conflict. The present work therefore, attempts to redress this balance. The emphasis of the work will be concerned primarily with tarjīh methodology ; how to give preference to one piece of evidence or argument over the other when they conflict. Nevertheless, considerable concern is given to investigating the background to the conflict of law in the Shari'ah.
This study of a neglected area in Islamic legal scholarship will be an important source of reference to students, both practising and theoretical jurists or to anyone who merely wishes to increase his knowledge of legal themes, particularly legal conflict. The very aim of the work is to argue that conflict is a natural and unavoidable consequence of legal study because legal conflict is only conflicting principles and arguments adduced by both the classical and modern jurists to reach what is actually intended by God in the target case. Therefore, conflicts are inevitable in most of the cases in fiqh owing to the variety of principles set out to deal with one piece of legal evidence, let alone with all the pieces of legal evidence in question.
Tarjīh is therefore, an important and workable instrument in the re-examination of these conflicts and in arriving at the most accurate principle for establishing the law for as long as this is possible. It is hoped that the discovery of new facts and the increase of knowledge which results from the broadening and deepening of the research will positively contribute to the process of unification of Islamic law
Qur'anic narrative and Isra'iliyyat in Western scholarship and in classical exegesis
No full textThe main subject of this thesis is twofold. On the one hand it analyses how the Qur'an presents stories, on the other hand it examines the classical Muslim commentators' response to the Qur'anic narration.
In part one we remark that the theory that the Qur'an borrowed extensively from the Bible has clouded the vision of many Western scholars. They explained the Qur'anic narratives in accordance with their preconceptions; only a few emancipated themselves from this prejudice, but some of these scholars were sensitive to the literary qualities of the Qur'anic narrative. Adopting their general approach to the Qur'anic narrative we analyse the Qur'anic narrative of the 'golden calf' episode. Here we invite the reader to step into the textual world of the Qur'an in order to appreciate its otherness. At the same time we try to show the internal coherence among the verses (and also among the surahs) to remove the assumption of the incoherence of the Qur'an which has veiled much of its literary excellence from view. In addition, this study gives us an opportunity to appreciate one of the most neglected aspects of the Qur'anic narratives, namely the relationship between the oral recitation and the written characters of the Qur'an. The written text lacks the contextual richness provided by the oral dimension for it cannot convey intonation, emphasis, and so on, but the transcription of the spoken word displays the relationship of sound and meaning within
the surahs or verses together with special emphasis upon phonological effects.
The first chapter of part two is designed to provide a general overview of the notion of isrä'iliyyät, taking into account the opinions held by both Muslim and non-
Muslim authorities. We raise two important questions regarding this technical term
When did the technical term isra'iliyyät come into general use?
Who first used it critically?
To answer these questions we analyse the commentaries of eight exegetes together with some qisas works on the 'golden calf and 'heavenly table' episodes. It is clear
that, in contrast to the view held by many Muslim and non-Muslim scholars, the technical usage of this term is a late development. Another important conclusion derived from our analysis of classical exegesis is that the commentators who use this term themselves depend on isra'iliyyät in several respects. In other words, their theory,is not in agreement with their practice. Furthermore, there are commentators who do not use the term isra'iliyyät and consistently seek to distance themselves from these reports. They also try to minimise the amount of these reports in their tafsir. According to this research, Ibn Atiyya was the first to pay more attention to the implausibility of this type of report, two centuries before Ibn Kathir's critical exegesis
El título de la crónica almohade de Ibn Sahib al-salat
No full textUno de los cronistas más importantes de los almohades fue el andalusí
Abu Marwán ''Abd al-Malik b. Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Muhammad
b. Ibrahim al-Bâyï, conocido como Ibn Sáhib al-salát (fallecido
después de 600/1203). Su crónica del califato inaugurado por 'Abd
al-Mu'min sólo se ha conservado parcialmente y lleva el título de
al-Mann bi-l-imáma 'ala l-mustad'afina bi-an ya'ala-hum Allah
a 'imma wa-ya'ala-hum al-waritin wa-zuhur al-imam Mahdi al-muwahhidin. Huici Miranda tradujo ese título como «El don del imamato
para los que no merecieron que los colocase Dios como imames y los
puso como sus herederos y la aparición de al-Mahdi de los almohades», de donde se deduciría que los almohades mismos (recuérdese que
Ibn Sáhib al-salát formaba parte de los talaba, los «cuadros» almohades)
no estaban muy convencidos de su propia legitimidad religiosa y
política. La traducción de Huici Miranda ha influido a investigadores
posteriores, a pesar de que ya el editor del texto árabe, 'Abd al-Hadi
al-Tazi, había señalado la estrecha conexión de ese título con un versículo
coránico el cual contribuye a aclarar su significado.Peer reviewe
Learning approaches as predictors of academic performance of undergraduate students in Ahmadu Bello Universiy, Zaria
No full textBackground: The research was conducted to investigate learning approaches as predictors of academic performance of undergraduate students in Ahmad Bello University, Zaria. The aim was to assess the learning approach of undergraduate students in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. The objectives are to determine the predominant learning approach, identify factors that influence the students learning approach and explore the relationship between approaches to studying and academic achievement of undergraduate students of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Materials and methods: A non-experimental descriptive survey method was employed and analysis was done using SPSS version 21. The sample technique was probability (simple random) type of sample technique base on faculty. The sample size was calculated to 395 using Yamane formula. 395 questionnaires were administered out of which 375 were retrieved. Results: The study shows that 81.1% of the students were aware of learning approach and the predominant learning approach mostly used by Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria undergraduate students is surface approach (M=14.88,SD=2.64). The study identified personal factors, family factors, school factors and peer factors and social factor as factors that influence the students learning approach. It also shows that there is a significant relationship between learning approach and academic achievement (R=0.205,p=0.005)
Hausa Visual Genome 1.0
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Hausa Visual Genome 1.0, a multimodal dataset consisting of text and images suitable for English-to-Hausa multimodal machine translation tasks and multimodal research. We follow the same selection of short English segments (captions) and the associated images from Visual Genome as the dataset Hindi Visual Genome 1.1 has. We automatically translated the English captions to Hausa and manually post-edited, taking the associated images into account.
The training set contains 29K segments. Further 1K and 1.6K segments are provided in development and test sets, respectively, which follow the same (random) sampling from the original Hindi Visual Genome.
Additionally, a challenge test set of 1400 segments is available for the multi-modal task. This challenge test set was created in Hindi Visual Genome by searching for (particularly) ambiguous English words based on the embedding similarity and manually selecting those where the image helps to resolve the ambiguity.
Dataset Formats
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The multimodal dataset contains both text and images.
The text parts of the dataset (train and test sets) are in simple tab-delimited plain text files.
All the text files have seven columns as follows:
Column1 - image_id
Column2 - X
Column3 - Y
Column4 - Width
Column5 - Height
Column6 - English Text
Column7 - Hausa Text
The image part contains the full images with the corresponding image_id as the file name. The X, Y, Width, and Height columns indicate the rectangular region in the image described by the caption.
Data Statistics
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The statistics of the current release are given below.
Parallel Corpus Statistics
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Dataset Segments English Words Hausa Words
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Train 28930 143106 140981
Dev 998 4922 4857
Test 1595 7853 7736
Challenge Test 1400 8186 8752
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Total 32923 164067 162326
The word counts are approximate, prior to tokenization.
Citation
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If you use this corpus, please cite the following paper:
@InProceedings{abdulmumin-EtAl:2022:LREC,
author = {Abdulmumin, Idris
and Dash, Satya Ranjan
and Dawud, Musa Abdullahi
and Parida, Shantipriya
and Muhammad, Shamsuddeen
and Ahmad, Ibrahim Sa'id
and Panda, Subhadarshi
and Bojar, Ond{\v{r}}ej
and Galadanci, Bashir Shehu
and Bello, Bello Shehu},
title = "{Hausa Visual Genome: A Dataset for Multi-Modal English to Hausa Machine Translation}",
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},
month = {June},
year = {2022},
address = {Marseille, France},
publisher = {European Language Resources Association},
pages = {6471--6479},
url = {https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.694}
Ghargham Hajiya Kaltume Bulama Gana (The biography of Hajiya Kaltume Bulama Gana)
No full textThe entire document is available for download as a single PDF file. Higher-resolution images may be available upon request. For technical assistance, please contact [email protected]. Fieldwork Team: Dr. Mustapha Hashim Kurfi (Principal Investigator), Hauwa Usman (Local Project Manager), Alhaji Abubakar Maikudi Aishat (General Field Facilitator). Technical Team: Prof. Fallou Ngom (Project Director and former Director of the African Studies Center), and Eleni Castrol (Technical Lead, BU Libraries). These collections on Gender in Nigerian Ajami Manuscripts are copied as part of the African Studies Center’s African Ajami Library. Access Condition and Copyright: These materials are subject to copyright. All rights reserved to the author. For use, distribution or reproduction contact Professor Fallou Ngom ([email protected]). Required Citation: Kurfi, M. H., Hauwa U., Ngom, F., and Castro, E. (2020). African Ajami Library: Gender in Nigerian Ajami Manuscripts. Boston: Boston University Libraries: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/41953. For Inquiries: Please Contact Professor Fallou Ngom ([email protected]).Provenance / Custodial history: This manuscript is owned and authored by Professor Aliyu Muhammad of the Department of Arts, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria in Kaduna state, Nigeria. The owner documented and wrote about the life and works of Hajiya Kaltume Bulama Gana. Written in the Mashriqi script, the document is complete and is typed.This document deals with the biography of Hajiya Kaltume Bulama Gana, a Northern Nigerian Muslim woman who is educated in and practicing Islamic arts as a profession. She established a non-profit organization that educates children, including young women and girls affected by the Boko Haram insurgency so that they can become self-reliant and acquire new vocational skills. Written in 2019, this Kanuri Ajami text contains two parts: The first part deals with the life and works of Hajiya Kaltume Bulama Gana, and the second is an interview transcript with her. In the interview, she discusses her non-profit organization, her Herwa Heart of Art Initiative. This part provides details on how she established the organization and her successes and challenges. In the last part of the interview, she discusses how philanthropists and the general public can support her organization in order to use the arts to assist the orphans and children displaced and traumatized by Boko Haram in Borno state and beyond.The contents of this collection were developed with support of the Title VI National Resource Center grant # P015A180164 from the U.S. Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government
TANBIH AS-SAHIB ALA AHKAM AL-MAKASIB AND ITS RELEVANCE TO THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA
No full textIslam views life as complete package, economic aspect being an important part of it. The most sensible area of economic system in Islam is rule of earning and expenditure. It was reported by Abu-Hurairah (R.A) that the prophet (SAW) said: “A time will come when people would not bother for their earning; it is Halal or Haram” (Bukhari: vol. 2, No .2056). The book titled Tanbih as-Sahib ala Ahkam al-Makasib (Alerting the Brother for the rules of Earning) by late Sultan Muhammad Bello through much light on the Islamic rules of earning and expenditure. The present paper analyzed the relevance of this important book to the areas of earning, expenditure and economic development, from the Islamic perspective. The author’s historical and educational background, as noted under the brief history of the author, points to the author’s ability to address economic issues in general earning and expenditure in particular.
Islam memandang hidup sebagai paket yang lengkap, aspek ekonomi menjadi bagian penting darinya. Bidang sistem ekonomi yang paling masuk akal dalam Islam adalah aturan pendapatan dan pengeluaran yang makalah ini menyoroti dari Tanbih As-Sahib Ala Ahkam Al-Makasib. Karya ini mencoba menyoroti ajaran dasar Tanbih as-Sahib ala Ahkam al-Makasib (Memperingatkan Saudara tentang Aturan Penghasilan) oleh mendiang Sultan Muhammad Bello melalui banyak penjelasan tentang aturan Islam tentang penghasilan dan pengeluaran. Makalah ini menganalisis relevansi buku penting ini dengan bidang pendapatan, pengeluaran dan pembangunan ekonomi, dari perspektif Islam. Makalah ini juga menjelaskan kehidupan dan waktu penulis, dengan demikian menunjukkan kemampuan penulis untuk mengatasi masalah ekonomi dalam pendapatan dan pengeluaran umum pada khususnya dan relevansinya dengan Nigeria modern. Untuk mendapatkan data untuk makalah ini, desk review diadopsi sebagai metodologi pengumpulan data untuk penelitian ini
Optimization of Grid-Connected PV Systems: Balancing Economics and Environmental Sustainability in Nigeria
No full textNigeria faces the dual challenge of harmful industrial emissions contributing to climate change and unreliable power supply, demanding urgent attention. This study focuses on optimizing a grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) system at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Kaduna, Nigeria, with the goal of achieving economic and environmental sustainability. The study utilizes HOMER, a widely used optimization tool for renewable energy systems, to design and evaluate three distinct energy scenarios. The first scenario relies solely on grid power, resulting in high annual costs of 2,714 and 1,867 kWh generated from solar PV. The third scenario demonstrates the most favourable outcomes, combining high solar PV generation with economic benefits. The system produces 29,684 kWh annually, selling 1,043. The initial installation cost is expected to be recovered within two years, offering potential savings of $20,000 over the system's 20-year lifespan. These findings show the viability of solar PV systems as a solution to Nigeria's energy challenges, underscoring the importance of balancing economic and environmental factors in energy system design. The study provides valuable insights for institutions and similar contexts looking to transition to more sustainable energy systems
An Automated Solar Panels Monitoring and Cleaning System: A Case Study of Kaduna Polytechnic, Nigeria.
No full textThe use of Photo Voltaic (PV) panels for the generation of electricity has received a lot of attention from both industries and academia as a renewable energy source due to inadequate electricity from the grid, its low cost as well as environmental benefits. However, the ef?ciency of solar panels can be signi?cantly affected by major issues such as the accumulation of dust or dirt particles on their surfaces. Therefore, this study presents the design and construction of an automatic based PV monitoring and cleaning system. The system comprises electromechanical parts such as microcontroller, servo motor, submersible pump, voltage sensor, Light Dependent Resistor (LDR) sensor and metal frame. In addition, a modified Blynk application was integrated with the system to remotely monitor and control the performance of the panels. Several tests were carried out by using 150Watts panel installed in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Kaduna Polytechnic. The experimental results obtained shows that the output power of the panel decreases as the dust or dirt particles increases. However, the performance of the panel improved when the cleaning process was carried using the proposed methodology in terms of output voltage, current, and power levels with a value of 13.76%, 17.46%, and 33.61% respectively
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