The Aminu Kano College of Islamic and Legal Studies (AKCILS) is a post-secondary institution located in Kano, the most populous Muslim-majority city in northern Nigeria. AKCILS provides young men and women with Islamic education and training in other subjects such as languages, civil law and social sciences. Students attend college to earn a degree or prepare for university teaching. In addition to its many professors and staff trained in Nigeria, AKCILS has hired several Nigerian Muslim graduates from foreign Islamic universities. AKCILS` expatriate faculty members engage in many professional and religious activities outside the college. These include running their own Islamic schools, serving in state government bureaucracies, teaching in mosques, and publishing religious tracts. These faculty members often pursue additional postgraduate studies inside and outside Nigeria. In this way, AKCILS serves as an institutional base for its professors, from which they can continue to build profiles as academics, professionals and religious leaders. In other words, AKCILS was a mechanism by which the educated Muslim rulers of northern Nigeria were reintegrated into their society. Based on interviews with staff, academic discourse, and unpublished material on AKCILS` history, this essay explores the interrelationships between AKCILS` role within the Kano Sharia system and its role as a professional platform for Arabic-trained faculty members. Kano State Ministry of Education (August 2006). Analysis of the situation of education in Kano (first draft). Kano: Kano State Department of Education.
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