KanoPrayer Times in Kano, Nassarawa

Kano in northern Nigeria has been a Hausa Muslim city since at least the late fourteenth century, when according to the Kano Chronicle the ruler Yaji adopted Islam, and it became a major node of trans-Saharan trade and Maliki scholarship under the Hausa kingdoms and then the Sokoto Caliphate after the early-nineteenth-century jihad of Usman dan Fodio. The Kano Great Mosque (Masallacin Kano) and the centuries-old earthen city walls, together with the historic Emir's Palace, anchor the Old City — a dense urban fabric of mosques, Quran schools, dye-pits, and markets. Kano's leather, indigo, and book trades sustained one of the most active manuscript cultures of West Africa, with Tijani and Qadiri Sufi networks adding further depth to its religious life. Today Kano is the largest Muslim-majority city in Nigeria, with active Friday-prayer congregations across hundreds of mosques and a vigorous tradition of Hausa-language Islamic scholarship and Maliki jurisprudence.