Neco 2022 Islamic Religious Studies Question 11
Practice objective / multiple choice question 11 from the 2022 Neco Islamic Religious Studies examination.
Historical records indicate that the city of Kano embraced Islam in the \(14^{\text{th}}\) century, while the city of Timbuktu became a major Islamic scholarly centre exactly 200 years later. The city of Gao adopted Islam some years after the death of the \(8^{\text{th}}\) Rightly Guided Caliph (Umar ibn al‑Khattab, who died in \(644\) CE). If the interval between the adoption of Islam in Gao and the establishment of the university in Timbuktu (\(1492\) CE) was equal to the interval between Kano's adoption and the death of the \(8^{\text{th}}\) Caliph, in which century did Gao adopt Islam?
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This is Neco 2022 Islamic Religious Studies Question 11. It is one of the objective questions from the 2022 Neco Islamic Religious Studies examination.
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