Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities
Vol. 4, No. 10, October 2014, pp. 75-94.
Asian Journal
of Research in
Social Sciences
and
Humanities
ISSN 2249-7315
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Asian Research Consortium
Artistic Islamism of Ibadan
Toyin Emmanuel Akinde*; Abiodun Akeem Oladiti**;
Segun Oladapo Abiodun***; Akinkunmi Olatunbosun Odeniyi****
*Ladoke Akintola University of Technology,
Ogbomoso, Nigeria.
**Ladoke Akintola University of Technology,
Ogbomoso, Nigeria.
***Ladoke Akintola University of Technology,
Ogbomoso, Nigeria.
****Techno Infra Habitat Consultants Limited,
Woji, Port-Harcourt, Rivers State. (DOI NUMBER-10.5958/2249-7315.2014.01001.6)
Abstract
Ibadan, the largest city in West Africa is equally the most populous city in Nigeria. Her advent in
1829 was native with pockets of Muslims during the Jihad penetration of the Yorubaland through
Ilorin. But for her valiant, the Jihadists were diversely halted at Ijesa, Ekiti and Osogbo between
1835 and 1843. Islam in Ibadan nonetheless, blossom few decades after, despite the pandemonium
of the Jihad; also flourished is the budding Islamic culture which embraces art and representational
arts courtesy of the Hanafi, the Shafi to mention few. Their various teachings can be argued,
responsible for art and artistic tolerance among Muslims in Ibadan, contrary to orthodox which
cursorily arbors art practice. In view of the latter, this paper examined Islam in history, its
rationalistic pluralism vis-à-vis the various indigenous art practices in Ibadan, the emerging art
among Muslims and Muslim artists of old to the twenty first century Ibadan.
Keywords: Ibadan, Muslim artists, rationalistic Islam, Ibaa Oluyole, Oja-Oba.
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