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Gummi, Abubakar Mahmud

LC control no.n 85078205
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Personal name headingGummi, Abubakar Mahmud
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Variant(s)Gumi, Abubakar, 1922-1992
Gumi, Abubakar, Sheikh
Gumi, Abubakar Mahmud
Gummi, Abubakar Mahmood, Sheikh
Gummi, Abubakar Mohammad, Sheik
Associated countryNigeria
Birth date[1922,1923]
1922
1924
Death date1992-09-11
Place of deathLondon (England)
Field of activityIslam--Doctrines
AffiliationJama'atu Nasril Islam (Nigeria)
Yan Izala (Organization)
Profession or occupationMuslim scholars Judges
Found inMusulunci da abinda ke rusheshi, 1981: t.p. (Alhaji Abubakar Mahmud Gummi) p. 49 (Abubakar Mahmud Gumi)
Wakili, I.M.G. The life & times of a noble woman, 2003?: facing p. 1 (family chart: Sheik Abubakar Mohammad Gummi) p. 1, etc. (Nigeria; Sheik Abubakar Mahmud Gummi; the late Sheikh Abubakar Mahmood Gummi; born in 1344 or 1345 which is equivalent to the year of 1922 to 1923; born in Shagari; Islamic scholar; Grand-Khadi/chief judge; father of Aisha M. Binji)
The selfless reformer, 2013: (Sheikh Abubakar Mahmud Gummi) p. 4 (1924-1992)
Harvard Divinity School website, Religion and Public Life, viewed August 30, 2021 (Jama'tu Nasril Islam ("Group for the Victory of Islam"), founded in 1962 by a coalition of Muslim leaders in northern Nigeria; following the assassination of Ahmadu Bello [Jan. 1966], the northern Muslim community became fragmented; in the 1970s, the JNI leader, Sheikh Abubakar Gumi, critical of apparent lack of strict Islamic discipline, encouraged followers to break away and form the Izala, which eclipsed it in the following decade)
The Independent, Obituary: Sheikh Abubakar Mahmud Gumi, 15 September 1992, initial snippet viewed August 30, 2021 (Abubakar Mahmud Gumi, Islamic scholar, born Gumi, Sokoto state, Nigeria 1922, died London 11 September 1992)
Associated languageeng hau