@ All

Please my people i want to know why islamic religeon is tagged Imole in the 80s
in the yoruba land
Imole means hard knowlegde

Please i need to be enlightened about the history of islamic religeon and how they entered
Nigeria.

I once read that africa and Nigeria was a peacefull continent/country before this islamic messangers came in with there imole(religeon) practise

And again can any man really fight for God ?

I thought it was Imale

moved to culture.

does imole have another meaning besides that, because i just read something about african brazilian muslims being called male, or imale.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mal%C3%AA_Revolt

just curious.

Also, why does imole have at least three meanings in yoruba, albeit different intonations, and all relating to religion.

Imole also means orisa worship, or revelation.

Just wondering.

i thought islam was called esin mali and musilimu

^^it's also known as imole which most people translate as hard knowledge.

however, the brazilian interpretation seems to mean malian ie religion from mali.

this is rather puzzling since there's no known connection between nigeria/yorubaland and mali that i'm aware of [human trafficking aside]. Unless there's something i dont know.

as puzzling as the yoruba word for obesiance which is juba. Juba happens to be the name of a king in ancient mauritania.

by esin mali i assume you mean esin imale.

The distortion about "esin imole" was created as far back as many centuries to blackmail the early Yoruba Muslims. History of Islam in Yorubaland showed that Islam came from Mali, courtesy of the Turkish people who brought the religion then to most parts of sub-Saharan Africa. It was common among Yoruba traders then to pronounce Mali as 'Male' (even before Islam came to Yorubaland). This is a FACT! So, when most Yoruba started converting to Islam from traditional religion, it was natural for the religion to be called "esin Male" (religion from Mali). But later, when religious rivalry started creeping in between Yoruba Christians and Muslims, 'Male' became 'imole' as a response to Muslims calling Christians 'Kiriyo'.
So, there was nothing like "esin imole". It started from "esin Male (corrupted for Mali" and further corrupted to "imole."

TajOla:
The distortion about "esin imole" was created as far back as many centuries to blackmail the early Yoruba Muslims. History of Islam in Yorubaland showed that Islam came from Mali, courtesy of the Turkish people who brought the religion then to most parts of sub-Saharan Africa. It was common among Yoruba traders then to pronounce Mali as 'Male' (even before Islam came to Yorubaland). This is a FACT! So, when most Yoruba started converting to Islam from traditional religion, it was natural for the religion to be called "esin Male" (religion from Mali). But later, when religious rivalry started creeping in between Yoruba Christians and Muslims, 'Male' became 'imole' as a response to Muslims calling Christians 'Kiriyo'.
So, there was nothing like "esin imole". It started from "esin Male (corrupted for Mali" and further corrupted to "imole."

Thanks for this.
Please what’s Kiriyo?