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The Madrasah and Muslim Child Upbringing in Accra: A Study of Institute of Islamic Studies, Nima-Accra
(University of Ghana, 2019-07) Adam, I.I.
Ghana after independence has strived to transform secular education and Islamic education. This led to the establishment of the Islamic Education Unit (IEU) under the Ghana Education Service (GES) in 1987. The main aim was to enhance administrative linkage between Qur‘anic Schools (Makaranta and Madrasah) and the Ghana Education Service (GES) in the country in order to reform the Madrasah (English Arabic Schools) education to enable the Muslim child to attain both secular education and Islamic education under one roof. The study adopted theological and phenomenological approaches to investigate the Madrasah education and Muslim child upbringing. Relevant literature was sourced from primary and secondary sources. The study investigated Madrasah education and Muslim child upbringing using the Institute of Islamic Studies (IIS) of the Islamic Research and Reformation Centre (IRRC) at Nima in Accra as a case study. In order to achieve the aims and objectives of the study, the views of families, Ulamah (Islamic Scholars) and teachers were solicited. Other views were obtained from the current and past students of the Institute of Islamic Studies. The study revealed that Madrasah plays a crucial part in the upbringing of the Muslim child in Nima. The challenges identified in the study included indecent lifestyle, peer influence and truancy among others. The research recommends that parents need to be actively involved in the acquisition of Islamic education of their wards and children. Furthermore, the research recommends that Madrasah education is critical in the upbringing of the Muslim child and his/her development.
Religious Excerpts in West African Arabic Literature
(University of Ghana, 2015-06) Adam, I.I.; Hussenii, A.A.A.; Mohammed, B.A.; College of Humanities School of Languages Department of Arabic
The study focused on religious excepts and its significance in West African Arabic Poetry, seeking to showcase not only the extent of occurrence of these excerpts, but also its artistic value. The study was carried out on pieces of poems curled from collection of individual poets from the dawn of the twentieth century to date. The essence of the study was to highlight the central role of excerpts technically defined in Arabic Rhetoric as "al-iqtibas" in consolidating the thoughts expressed in West African Arabic poems. The study adopted an inductive and descriptive analytical approaches, whereby the researcher identified, described, and analysed religious excerpts, mainly from Quran and Hadith, that have been featured in the sampled poems. Generally Muslim scholars consider the Quran and Hadith as linguistic masterpieces and standard work worthy of emulation. This primarily explains why Muslim novelists and poets, frequently feature in their works, excerpts from Quran and Hadith. They seek to offer their piece of work, both the requisite linguistic value and authoritative voice. This phenomenon has not been duly explored as far as West African poetry is concerned. This is what necessitated this study. Among others, the study made the following observations: 1. It was established that West African Arabic poets used religious excerpts mainly in exhortation and advice, seeking to influence their audience. 2. The study revealed that religious excepts occurred mostly in descriptive poems, and the poets display a depth of creativity in terms of situating the excerpts in proper context. 3. In the same way, the poet used religious excerpts in poems of complaints and intersession, whereby they featured quotes from Quran and Hadith relating to supplications. 4. It came to light that two main forms of religious excerpts were predominantly used in these poems; direct quotes and indirect quotes. In the latter, the poets reproduced the meaning contained in specific quotes, while in the former they used same words to convey same thoughts. 5. It emerged that the goal for replicating religious excepts in most of the poems, was to inculcate sound morals in the audience