THE DOCTRINAIRE OF THE QUR’ANIYYUN CREED: AFOCUS ON IDRISIYYA, MU’ALLAMU, HUSSAIN MAI DANBENE AND MALAM YA’US SCHOOL OF THOUGHT

Abstract

Over the years, ideological differences among Muslim communities in Northern Nigeria have been one of the problems that caused several upheavals, namely the Yantatsine crises in the 1980s, in Kano, Kaduna, Bullukutu in Borno State, Gombe and Funtua in Katsina State in 1992. These are minority Muslim movements. However, there are also the Izala and Dariqa crises in the 1980s and the Shi’a crises of 1991 and 1992 in Katsina State. This paper focuses on the doctrinaire of some of the Islamic movements in Katsina that evolved after state creation; this is Qur’aniyyun and other Ulama on the one hand and Qur’aniyyun on the other hand.
In doing so the paper also looks at the major Qur’qniyyun groups in Katsina in order to explore their teachings, ideological differences and general outlook towards other groups