Has 36 state headquarters including the Federal Capital Territory (Abuja)
Region
West Africa
Services
Islamic Propagation, Charity and Teaching based on Qur'an & Sunnah.
National Chairman
Sheikh Sani Yahaya Jingir and Sheikh Sheikh Abdullahi Bala Lau[1]
Key people
Sheikh Kabir Gombe[2]
Affiliations
Sunni Islam
Website
www.jibwisnigeria.org
Izala Society or Jama'atu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa Iqamatus Sunnah (Society of Removal of Innovation and Re-establishment of the Sunnah), also known as JIBWIS, is a Salafi movement originally established in Northern Nigeria to fight what it sees as the bid'ah (innovation) practiced by the Sufi brotherhoods. It is one of the largest Sunni societies in Nigeria, Chad, Ghana, Niger, and Cameroon.
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IzalaSociety or Jama'atu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa Iqamatus Sunnah (Society of Removal of Innovation and Re-establishment of the Sunnah), also known as JIBWIS...
insurgency and the proselytizing campaigns of Salafist groups such as the IzalaSociety. The first recorded extremism in what is now Northern Nigeria was waged...
IzalaSociety, a Nigerian Wahhabi/Salafi organization created to fight Sufism This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Izala...
Muhammad Kabir Haruna has been the present Secretary General of the IzalaSociety since December 2011. He performs annual Ramadan Tafsir and undergoes...
Sheikh Ja'afar Mahmud Adam, Salafist Islamic scholar aligned with the IzalaSociety Lawal Kaita, Governor of Kaduna State 1983 Lawal Musa Daura, Director...
by Kano State Government, after the Kano State Islamic scholars from IzalaSociety, Salafiyya, Tijaniyyah and Qadiriyya reported Abduljabbar to the state...
convention preferred by Sunni schools and scholars, including the Salafi IzalaSociety. While technically such distinction between Sufis and Sunnis does not...
under the Kano State Commission for Religious Affair. Hisba Nigeria IzalaSociety Musa, Aisha (December 28, 2022). "Daurawa ya shawarci maza masu son...
2001. Ja'afar Mahmud Adam, Salafist Islamic scholar aligned with the IzalaSociety Salisu Buhari Daura, former Speaker of the House of Representatives...
is reported to have used the existing infrastructure in Borno of the IzalaSociety (Jama'at Izalatil Bidiawa Iqamatus Sunnah), a popular conservative Islamic...
scholarships to attend Saudi religious universities. One result was the IzalaSociety which fought Sufism in Nigeria, Chad, Niger, and Cameroon. In South...
behind the persecution of Shia Muslims in Nigeria. The Salafist movement IzalaSociety, is close to both Riyadh and Abuja and its satellite television channel...
Islamic Religious Affairs Jama'atu Nasril Islam Muslim Students Society of Nigeria IzalaSociety Tableeghi Jamat Tanzeem-e-Islami Dawat-e-Islami Jamaat-e-Islami...
arrested by Nigeria Police forces for calling El-Rufae as "a small bird". IzalaSociety "Kill Him When He Leaves Police Custody – Islamic Cleric Incites Sokoto...
IzalaSociety—a Salafi missionary group established 1978—has become one of the largest Islamic societies in Nigeria, Chad, Niger, and Cameroon. Izala...
of Islamic fundamentalism through the proselytizing campaigns of the IzalaSociety, Northern Nigerian cinema has witnessed considerable setbacks and has...
Ikamatul Sunnah or Movement for the Revival of the Sunnah, popularly called Izala, heralded the radicalization of Northern Nigeria. Many within the political...
Abd al-Muttalib For a Sunni source see Shah Wali ullah Muhadis Dehalvi, Izala Tul Khulafa, trans. Ishtiaq Ahmed, Vol. 4 (Karachi: Qadeemi Kutubkhana)...
Maradi-based Movement for Suppressing Innovations and Restoring Sunnah - IZALA, allegedly funded by clerics from Jos, Nigeria pushed for greater adherence...
Bid’ah Wa’ikhamatul Sunnah (or Izala) movement, and members of Boko Haram might all identify as Sunni, but the Izala and Boko Haram movements have had...
managed to reach Amida and then set about restoring the old forts on Mount Izala. There, possibly due to illness, he handed over command of his army to Heraclius...
(1891). Islam International. ISBN 9781853727429. Retrieved 20 May 2013. Izāla-i-Auhām (1891). Tazkiratush-Shahadatain, p. 38–39. "The Founder of the Ahmadiyya...
group is Sunni, including Tijaniyah, Qadiriyyah, and Sufi. Growing Shia and Izala (Salafist) minorities exist. Christian groups include Roman Catholics, Anglicans...
Decalo (1997) p. 261–2, 158, 230. Ben Amara, Ramzi. "The Development of the Izala Movement in Nigeria: Its Split, Relationship to Sufis and Perception of...
Anti-Sufism itself is therefore a marker of identity, and the formation of the Izala proves this beyond any reasonable doubt. Colonialism and Revolution in the...
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