Abstract:
This paper surveys fanatic egoism among the Muslim religious sects in northern Nigeria. This fervor was believed to have been engrained from sturdy immoderations, robust intemperance and educational decadence. It was agreed that fanaticism is promptly acquiring propound impetus in many expanses which in northern Nigeria thus, it’s characterized as pot-pourri of sectarianism because, each sect exhibit taut ideological beliefs and stiff interpretation, inordinate reproaches of opponent through hate-speech and sometimes open hostilities to individual and the state. Thus fanatics are likely found from each sects because transcendent values of Islam were somehow steered and the cardinals of Islam were unsafe from interrogation. This odium become wild phenomena in northern so much so that, fellow Muslims are addressed with variant names: munkir (indefinite fellow), kafir (unbelief) and taghut (idol) an important situation which wanes eminence of Islam by establishing fiasco of supremacy, aversion and repugnance between Muslim. This paper agreed that fanaticism in Islam is known through enthusiasm, gradations or misconceptions of ethics, values and traditions. It believed that there is no sect in northern Nigeria which is free from fanaticism and, the scale of this problem is subject to individuals’ belief or practice.
Keywords: fanaticism, sect, group, belief, thought, view
DOI: 10.36349/sokotojh.2025.v13i01.010
author/Abdulhamid, H., Mohammed, M. & Buhari, K.
journal/Sokoto JH | Vol. 13, Issue 1 | Dec. 2025
