Nasiru kabara biography graphic organizer

Life and Times. His grandparents came from Kabara, a town under Timbucktu kingdom. His third generation grandfather - also from Kabara in Timbucktu - Mallam Umaru, also known as Mallam Kabara was the only one from the lineage to settle in Adakawa in Kano city, before moving on to what is now known as Kabara ward, named after him. He was an accomplished Sufi in Timbucktu before departing for Kano.

The first thing Mallam Kabara did on settling in Kabara ward was to establish a school in , of a sort commonly referred as Zaure School where the outer entrance hall of his house was converted into an Islamic school. This school possibly among the oldest recorded schools in Kano is now part of the Darul Qadiriyya household of Sheikh Nasiru Kabara.

The youthful Nasiru was extremely enthusiastic in his search for knowledge. His first encounter with advanced Islamic learning system - long after he had graduated from the normal Allo Qur'an read from wooden slates schooling system, emerging extremely fluent in Arabic language, Islamic jurisprudance and Linguistics - was with Bad'ul Amli and Murshida, both treatises on Tauhidi; the unity of God.

Next followed a voracious apepite for other books and soon he had completed his studies of Ahlari, Iziyya and Risala: all books necessary for a proper understanding of Islam. Because in Islam there is no concept of copyright, soon after the youthful Nasir was himself typesetting the Risala and Ishiriniya book of poetry in praise of the Prophet and selling them.

His learning process was essentially self-motivated, with of course appropriate encouragement from his main teacher: Mallam Natsugune.

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Consequently, the youthful Nasiru was a voracious searcher of Islamic knowledge, being far ahead of his contemporaries - indeed he was actually preaching to his classmates his advanced understanding of the meaning of the Quran; thus sowing the early seeds of his entry into Tafsir at such tender age. In Kano of that era - s - there were five advanced schools; essentially what can be considered pre-university schools now - where the young Nasiru used to go, on his own, to further his knowledge.

These schools were:. These schools had extensive reference libraries containing collections obtained from various North African scholastic centers.