Islamic ideology in the globalized world:a Nigerian Muslim experience

The world has become a global village and resulted into unavoidable intermingling of habitat of different societies with diverse culture and religious backgrounds. This has been identified to be the major cause of global unrest. The main thrust of this study, therefore, is to look into the effects o...

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Main Author:	Ayuba, Mahmud Adesina
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Institut Islam Hadhari Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2013
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6574/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6574/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6574/1/makalah08.pdf

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spelling	ukm-65742016-12-14T06:41:34Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6574/ Islamic ideology in the globalized world:a Nigerian Muslim experience Ayuba, Mahmud Adesina The world has become a global village and resulted into unavoidable intermingling of habitat of different societies with diverse culture and religious backgrounds. This has been identified to be the major cause of global unrest. The main thrust of this study, therefore, is to look into the effects of globalization on Nigerian Muslims. Methodologies used in this study are sociological and moral approaches. The study found out that the sources of Islamic teachings are divine in nature, while that of globalization are not. The study also revealed that the distinctive approach of Islamic ideology is that its instructions are aimed at the general welfare of the whole world, while the proponents of globalization want to re-create a world idea on everything tailored towards their ideology and conception of what a unified world should be. The study blamed the existing moral decadence and social misconduct among the Nigerian Muslims on unguarded consumption of programs through global information and communication technologies. Some elements of globalization such as telecommunications system, entertainment through the mass media, internet, satellite, and computer, among others, are examined and revealed that they portend great danger to the continuous serenity of Nigerian Muslims. The study, therefore, recommended moderation and education on the part of the Muslims to be able to distinguish between the good and bad ideologies from the preaching of globalization and also calls on the government to censor and regulate national systems of communication in order to curb the negative effects of globalization on Nigerian citizens. Institut Islam Hadhari Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6574/1/makalah08.pdf Ayuba, Mahmud Adesina (2013) Islamic ideology in the globalized world:a Nigerian Muslim experience. Jurnal Hadhari, 5 (1). pp. 125-139. ISSN 1985-6830 http://www.ukm.my/jhadhari/
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description	The world has become a global village and resulted into unavoidable intermingling of habitat of different societies with diverse culture and religious backgrounds. This has been identified to be the major cause of global unrest. The main thrust of this study, therefore, is to look into the effects of globalization on Nigerian Muslims. Methodologies used in this study are sociological and moral approaches. The study found out that the sources of Islamic teachings are divine in nature, while that of globalization are not. The study also revealed that the distinctive approach of Islamic ideology is that its instructions are aimed at the general welfare of the whole world, while the proponents of globalization want to re-create a world idea on everything tailored towards their ideology and conception of what a unified world should be. The study blamed the existing moral decadence and social misconduct among the Nigerian Muslims on unguarded consumption of programs through global information and communication technologies. Some elements of globalization such as telecommunications system, entertainment through the mass media, internet, satellite, and computer, among others, are examined and revealed that they portend great danger to the continuous serenity of Nigerian Muslims. The study, therefore, recommended moderation and education on the part of the Muslims to be able to distinguish between the good and bad ideologies from the preaching of globalization and also calls on the government to censor and regulate national systems of communication in order to curb the negative effects of globalization on Nigerian citizens.
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author	Ayuba, Mahmud Adesina
spellingShingle	Ayuba, Mahmud Adesina Islamic ideology in the globalized world:a Nigerian Muslim experience
author_facet	Ayuba, Mahmud Adesina
author_sort	Ayuba, Mahmud Adesina
title	Islamic ideology in the globalized world:a Nigerian Muslim experience
title_short	Islamic ideology in the globalized world:a Nigerian Muslim experience
title_full	Islamic ideology in the globalized world:a Nigerian Muslim experience
title_fullStr	Islamic ideology in the globalized world:a Nigerian Muslim experience
title_full_unstemmed	Islamic ideology in the globalized world:a Nigerian Muslim experience
title_sort	islamic ideology in the globalized world:a nigerian muslim experience
publisher	Institut Islam Hadhari Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2013
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6574/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6574/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6574/1/makalah08.pdf
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Islamic ideology in the globalized world:a Nigerian Muslim experience

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