{"id":11381,"date":"2017-02-21T11:44:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T10:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=11381"},"modified":"2017-04-21T16:55:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T15:55:37","slug":"gumi-sheikh-abubakar-mahmud","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/gumi-sheikh-abubakar-mahmud\/","title":{"rendered":"GUMI, Sheikh Abubakar Mahmud"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic lawyer andscholar, born in 1922, Gummi, Zamfara, Sokoto State; married, has 30 children; Education: Dogon-Daji Primary School Sokoto, 1931-33, Sokoto Central Primary School, 1933-35, Sokoto Middle School, 1935-42, Khadi School, Sokoto, 1942-43, Kano Law School (now School for Arabic Studies) Kano, 1943-47, 1948-49, Arabic Law School, Sudan, 1953-55; Court Clerk to Chief Alkali&#8217;s Court, 1947-48; Teacher, Emergency Teachers&#8217; College, Maru, 1949-51; Teacher, Kano School for Arabic Studies, 1951-53; Assistant Secretary for External Affairs, Lagos, 1957-58; First West African&#8217;s Pilgrims Officer, Saudi Arabia, 1958-59; established West African Pilgrims WelfareCentre, Saudi Arabia, 1959; Education Officer, Kano Law School, 1959-60; appointed Deputy Grand Khadi for Northern Nigeria, 1960-63 and Substantive Grand Khadi, 1963-75; Adviser to the former Premier of Northern Nigeria, Sir Ahmadu Bello, 1963-75; member, Judicial Service Commission, 1962-65; member, Judicial Advisory Council, defunct Supreme Military Council, 1966-75; Chairman, Nigerian Pilgrims Welfare Boara, 1973-78; appointed Chairman, Board of the National Teachers&#8217; In stitute, Kaduna, 1978; member, Rabita World Muslim League, Mecca and Jeddah; member, SupremeCouncil, University of Medina; mem ber, Jama&#8217;atu Nasril Islam; member, Kadmus Mosque Foundation; Adviser, Muslim.Bank, Jedda; member, MajFigh, Mecca; Award: honoured with King Faisal InternationalAward, March 1987 (Saudi Arabia); National Honour: conferred with the Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (CFR); Honorary Degrees: awarded honorary Doctor of Laws (Hon. LLD), University of Ibadan, November 1965; Hons LLD, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1965; Publications: Hausa translation of the Holy Quran and numerous articles on Islamic religion; Hobbies: religious activities, reading; Address: 12A, Modibo Adamawa Avenue, Ungwar Sarki, Kaduna State<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[319,165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-11381","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-clergy","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11381"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=11381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}