ABSTRACT
Islamic education, like the literature upon which it rests, falls into several categories, by now well established. An Arabic word which means panegyric or eulogy, especially that addressed to the Prophet Muhammad. A number of poems that are certainly classics of Hausa literature deal with the sira. It would certainly find a place in an extended system of traditional Islamic education such as the Waziri envisages. The teaching of Arabic commences in the first year of the senior primary school. It continues throughout primary and secondary education—although at some point in the secondary stage it usually becomes optional—and may culminate in a course leading to the overseas school certificate examination in the classical Arabic. Islamic sentiment insists that classical Arabic is taught as from the primary school. Responsible opinion is equally insistent on the teaching of both Hausa and English.
