Английская Википедия:Dahiru Usman Bauchi

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Шаблон:Short description Sheikh Dahiru Usman OFR Шаблон:Pronunciation (born 29 June 1927) is a Nigerian Islamic Scholar. He is the supreme leader of the Islamic Sufi group known as the Tijaniyyah in Nigeria.


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Early life

Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi was born in East Gombe at Northern Region, Nigeria.Шаблон:Citation needed His parents were from Bauchi in East Gombe. His maternal roots are from Gombe. Dahiru Bauchi was born in the Hijri year 1346 (Gregorian calendar: June 29, 1927).

Education

As a youth Dahiru Bauchi studied the Holy Qur’an under the tutelage of his father Alhaji Usman. Eventually he learned to recite the entire Qur’an from memory as could his father. He studied under scholars like Shaykh Tijani Usman Zangon-Bare-bari, Shaykh Abubakar Atiku and Shaykh Abdulqadir Zaria He received the Tijjaniyyah Tariqah. His father was a Tijani muqaddam (Imam), who was granted authorization (ijāzah) for tariqa. Dahiru Bauchi is deputy chair of the Fatwa Committee of the Supreme Council Of Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) in Nigeria. He is 95 years old but still healthy as a youth [1]

Criticism

Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi was detained in 2009 in Saudi Arabia by Saudi security forces while performing his pilgrimage in Mecca. The cause of the arrest was the ongoing doctrinal dispute between three major Nigerian Islamic groups, Darika, Izala, and Shi'ah, that broke out during Ramadan of that year.[2]

Shi'a killings

Usman is not blamed in the 2015 Zaria massacre on Nigerian authorities.[3]

Personal life

The renowned Islamic scholar, now in his 90's with more than 80 children, married the daughter of the renowned 20th-century Tijani scholar Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse. Sheikh Baba Laminu Niasse of Kaolack, Senegal, officiated the marriage in Ibrahim Niasse Mosque, Senegal.[4]

See also

References

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