The Kwara Government says it will establish a\u00a0 foundation to immortalise the late Islamic cleric, Shaykh Adam Al-Ilory.<\/p>\n
Alhaji Mohammed Raji, the Commissioner for Commerce and Co-operatives, made this public on Tuesday\u00a0 at the international conference on the life and works of\u00a0 the late cleric\u00a0 at the University of\u00a0 Ilorin.<\/p>\n
“Al-Ilory left a legacy of academic dynamism and intellectual eclecticism through his vast writings on Arabic and Islamic studies and other fields as diverse as history, political science, Islamic mysticism and others, so he deserves to be emulated,\u201d Raji\u00a0 said.<\/p>\n
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)\u00a0 reports that other scholars at the event described\u00a0 Al-Ilory as a world-class intellectual who revolutionalised the teaching of Arabic and Islamic studies in Southern Nigeria.<\/p>\n
Prof. Stefan Reichmuth, the Director of\u00a0 the Institute of Oriental and Islamic studies, University of\u00a0 Ruhr, Bochom, Germany, described the cleric\u00a0 as \u201c encyclopaedic. \u201d<\/p>\n
He said the cleric made personal contributions to Islamic studies, Arabic language and literature, adding that the feat achieved by the cleric would be difficult to match.<\/p>\n
Scholars at the event recommended that\u00a0 all the works of Al-Ilory should be collected and preserved in\u00a0 the proposed foundation.<\/p>\n
They further recommended that the works should be translated\u00a0 into English and other languages by the University of Ilorin Centre of Translation Arts.<\/p>\n
The conference was attended by\u00a0 more than\u00a0 300 participants from Nigeria, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Egypt, Sudan and Kuwait.
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