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Ahmed Lemu

شيخ أحمد ليمو

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Nigerian Muslim scholar, educationist and judge, born in the village of Lemu near Bida in Niger State in 1929 and died on 24 December 2020. He was educated at Lemu and Kano and then at SOAS, University of London; he taught Arabic and Islamic studies and rose through the education inspectorate, then became the first Sharia judge of the Sokoto Court of Appeal and Grand Khadi of the Niger State Sharia Court of Appeal. With his wife Aisha Lemu he founded the Islamic Educational Trust in 1969, and he received the King Faisal International Prize for service to Islam in 2014.

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Scholar · Jurist · teacher · writer
Region
West Africa & Sahel
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1900192519501975200020252050
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    Aisha Lemu

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    Aisha Lemu

    Sources

    • Ahmed Lemu — English Wikipedia
    • Ahmed Lemu — Arabic Wikipedia
    • Ahmed Lemu — Urdu Wikipedia
    • Ahmed Lemu — Wikidata Q33889400
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    islam.museum contributors. “Ahmed Lemu”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ahmed-lemu/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-26.

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    Aisha Lemu

    British author and religious educator, born at Poole, Dorset, in 1940 as Bridget Honey. She converted to Islam in 1961 while studying at SOAS in London, married the Nigerian scholar Ahmed Lemu in 1968 and moved to Nigeria, where she taught at Kano, Sokoto and Minna, co-founded the Islamic Educational Trust with her husband, and in 1985 founded the Federation of Muslim Women's Associations of Nigeria, serving as its first national Amirah. She wrote textbooks and many works on Islamic education and women in Islam. She died at Minna on 5 January 2019.