The Experimentation of the Islamization of Knowledge Program in Nigerian

Abstract

The 1977 World Conference of Muslim Education seemed to have opened the eyes of the Ummah to the evils inherent in the nature of education bequeathed to it by the colonial masters, and so decided to champion a course of bailing itself out of its educational backwardness through the programme of Islamization of knowledge. Interestingly, few Nigerian Muslim scholars who attended some of the subsequent similar conferences have made their impact felt not only by implementing some major decisions at the conferences, but also by exposing others to them. The programme seems to have been a white elephant project in a multi-religious society like Nigeria; yet, it has reached an appreciable level of acceptance and development. Some latest developments in the nation provide a soft ground for the programme to survive, while one cannot lose sight of some cogs in the wheel of its development