2018 CONFERENCE ON ISLAM IN NIGERIA

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    ISLAMIC THEOCRACY MOVEMENTS IN NIGERIA (Download)

    Author(s):
    Ilorin-Based Al-Harakatul-Islamiyyah , ,

    Abstract: The success of any human society largely depends on the quality of its governance. This is why government is sine qua non for private and public social settings as means of controlling human actions and directing them towards beneficial goals. As sacrosanct as governance is, it is unfortunate to observe that Nigeria as a state, is a bad example of bad governance. Over the years, leadership or governance in Nigeria has come to be characterized by injustice, oppression, fraud, corruption, criminality and illegality. Consequently, Nigerian citizens contend with daunting challenges of social injustice, insecurity, economic recession, political instability, insurgency, insurrection and extreme fear.
    The history of the Islamic theocracy movements which are geared towards bringing about a positive change in the Nigerian state through an Islamic revolution is however a long one. The geographical entity of the pre-and post Colonial Nigeria, a multicultural and multi religious environment, has had the historic experiences of the traditional or indigenous, Islamic and modern secular forms of government. Given the unpleasant and unsatisfactory experience of the modern secular government which eventually holds sway in Nigeria and the divine mandate for Muslims to live in accordance with the Sharrii‘ah of Islam, there is a continuous struggle for power like in many other parts of the world between the secular governments and the Islamic theocracy movements. Against this background, attempt by Muslims such as this Conference on Islam in Nigeria (COIN) aimed at critically examining and analyzing the contentions between the secular and the religious governance with a view to arriving at favourable resolution, is a worthwhile undertaking.