A STUDY OF NAFAQAH (MAINTENANCE) APPLICATION AS AN ISLAMIC SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM IN NORTHERN NIGERIA

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dc.contributor.authorHASSAN, Abubakar Kawu
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-05T09:44:47Z
dc.date.available2015-06-05T09:44:47Z
dc.date.issued2014-04
dc.description.abstractThis present study investigated the practice of Islamic Social Security System with special reference to Nafaqah (Maintenance) in some states of Northern Nigeria. A researcher designed questionnaire was administered to 1104 respondents randomly selected from rural and urban communities of Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Niger and Sokoto states. Eight (8) null hypotheses and eight (8) research questions were analysed. 25 items were generated in the questionnaire using summative rating scale of 1 to 5 response scale. The test statistics chi square (X2) was used to determine the level of significance at 5%. The result revealed that there is significant difference between the practice of Nafaqah among Rural Muslims and Urban Muslims. Findings also revealed that there exists significant difference between the practice of Nafaqah among those Muslims who acquired Western Education and those who acquired Islamic Education in the selected states of Northern Nigeria. Findings from the study also showed a significant difference between the practice of Muslims who acquired both Western and Islamic Education and those who acquired Islamic education in the selected States of Northern Nigeria. Results of the findings revealed that there is significant difference between the practice of Nafaqah among Muslims who acquired both Western and Islamic Education and those who acquired only Western Education in some States of Northern Nigeria. The research findings showed that there is a significant difference between the practice of urban Muslims who acquired Western Education and their counterparts that acquire Islamic Education in the selected States of Northern Nigeria. The research also revealed that there exists a significant difference between the practice of those urban Muslims who acquired both Western and Islamic Education and those Urban Muslims that acquired Islamic Education in the selected States of Northern Nigeria. The result of the findings revealed that there is significant difference in the practice of Nafaqah between the Rural Muslims that acquired both Western and Islamic Education, and their rural counterpart who only acquired Islamic Education in the selected States of Northern Nigeria. The results also revealed that there is significant difference between the practice of Nafaqah among the Rural Muslims that acquired both Islamic and Western Education and those Urban Muslims who acquired both Western and Islamic Education. Most of the Islamic Welfare institutions practice Nafaqah by way of feeding. Not much has been achieved by Islamic Welfare Institutions in the areas of clothing and shelter.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/6471
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectNAFAQAHen_US
dc.subjectISLAMIC SOCIAL SECURITYen_US
dc.titleA STUDY OF NAFAQAH (MAINTENANCE) APPLICATION AS AN ISLAMIC SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM IN NORTHERN NIGERIAen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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