Sources
Nasīm al-ṣabā, 161; Interviews, Ilorin 1986, 1987, 1989; Adekilekun (1989), 223 ff.
Biography
Brother of Dāwūd Aḥmad Adekilekun. He graduated from the Azhar Institute, Ilorin, and then from al-Azhar University in Cairo which he attended 1965-72. He continued his studies at Ahmadu Bello University and at the University of Ibadan where he received an M.A. in 1984. In 1972 he participated in the project to translate the Qurʾān into Yoruba undertaken by a group of Nigerian Muslim scholars under the auspic…