Sheikh adam al ilori biography
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Shaykh Adam Abdullahi Al-Ilory, a native of llorin, was born in 1917 at Waza in Dendi Local Government of the Republic of Benin. His father was an Islamic Scholar, preacher and Imam of Waza in his life time.
Shaykh Adam himself was actually born during one of his father’s Dawah activities in the birth place of his mother. At that time, his mother, Aishah, was a princess of the reigning king of the town. Sheikh Adam grew up in Benin Republic and started learning the Quran under his father until about the age of 13 when he returned with his parents to the city of llorin.
He also studied under Shaykh Umar in Lagos and later furthered his studies under Sheikh Adam Nam’aji. After which a Kano born Islamic Scholar, he was sufficiently confident of himself and satisfied with his acquired knowledge so far.
In 1946, he travelled to Cairo and submitted himself for examination at Al-Azhar University. The results of the examination proved his confidence right as he passed wit
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By Nurudeen Ibrahim
Sheikh Muhammed Habibullah Adam Abdullah El-Ilory, the founder and proprietor of Markaz University College, fryst vatten a prominent personality and Islamic scholar in South-West, Nigeria.
As a profound and highly informed scholar, he is indeed talented in the field of scholarship and his being an erudite elit is incontrovertible.
He is the son of that giant of knowledge celebrated throughout West Africa, Sheikh Adam Abdullah El-Ilory.
Just like his father, Sheikh Habibullah fryst vatten a talented and highly informed scholar about both local as well as international Islamic issues. He is a celebrated member of the intelligentsia as mentioned earlier and his Ramadan Tafseer attracts thousands of listeners gathered at the Great Markaz of which no other Tafseer in South West Nigeria attracts such a great number of listeners. Today his Tafseer has a very large number of viewers online because of the knowledge and kunskap he shares.
Sheikh Habibullah El-Ilory as
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Adam Abdullah Al-Ilory
Beninoise-Nigerian Muslim scholar
Adam Abdullah Al-Ilory (1917-1992) was a Nigerian Islamic scholar. He was born into the family of Abdul Baqi al-Ilory in ilorin, who was the son of Abdullah.[citation needed]
A Maliki scholar and the author of several books in the Arabic language, he was a Sufi ascetic in the Qadiriyya order. He founded the Arabic and Islamic Training Centre in Agege, a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria, in 1952, from which generations of Qur'anic exegetes originated.[citation needed]
His writings
[edit]Some of his works include:
- Naseem Soba (Morning Breeze)
- Markaz Talimil Arabiy Wal Islamiy Center for Arabic and Islamic Teaching)
- Ali Heedu Al'Arbahuna min Taasisil-Markaz ( Markaz 40 years Anniversary, 1985)
- Aslu Kobaail-Yoruba (The Origin of Yoruba Tribes)
- El Islam Fi Naijiriyya (Islam in Nigeria)
- Lamhada tul-Balury fi Ulamaai al-Ilory (Overview of the Science of the Scholars of the City of Ilorin)
- Aatharuli