Yobe State University of Nigeria Revives Quran Studies

TEHRAN (IQNA) - Setting up a Quran research centre, the Yobe State University in Nigeria aims to boost knowledge in Islam as well as restore interest in the Holy Book for which the old Borno Empire was well known.

If some of Yobe State’s old fame in Quran education returns, its Muslim faithful will have their state government and university to thank for it. In the old days when Kanem Borno Empire covered today’s Yobe and Borno states the whole of Africa respected the empire for its depth in Islamic studies, complete with Quran recitations and commentaries.

A lot of that has been whittled down over the years but the Yobe State University, with help from the state government, is set to recover what was lost.

The state institution has established the Centre for Research in Quranic Studies in order to develop a Quranic education system that will suit modern development and technological advancement in the region, the country and the Islamic world in general.

The centre, according to the Vice Chancellor of Yobe State University Prof. Musa Alabe, would also serve as a counter-insurgency measure to the Boko Haram crisis in the region and the immediate university community.

Source: The Nation