On the Synthesis of Islamic Religious Knowledge and Western Education



On one hand we have ‘Yan Boko’ (Western-educated folks) who have a zeal that is capable of seeing the achievement of great feats but yet lacking in the full tools and competence afforded by religious jurisprudence to enable them be ‘authoritative’ as well as have the requisite validity in the eyes of the masses to put forth stands and decisions. 

On the other, we have scholars who have a 'fixed' interpretation of what our reality should be and being the repositories of ‘legitimacy’ and what is ‘right or wrong’ they determine the extent to which a society moves. 

It is this gap that needs to be bridged because to my understanding there are issues that are fluid and that need contextualization and perhaps a combination of Qiyas, Ijtihad and Ijma to arrive at ‘contemporary’ stands regarding our realities and the ways forward that are peculiar to our particular circumstances.

So will it be a new breed of scholars that would arise and gain ascendancy who are well versed in quran, hadith, shariah, ‘fiqh’ and ‘lugga’ and at the same time knowledgeable in issues such as technological advances, medicine, astronomy, law, physics/chemistry/biology, and the whole gamut of disciplines that are a part of the world today which will enable the society to start to move away from the clutches of fatalistic and irreconcilable stands that are an anathema to our very existence as a people(Bokoharam is an example).

Only time will tell.

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