He was a Muslim scholar and are former, Shiekh Al-Amin carried out educational work to change the educational backwardness of Muslims in the region.
He opened his own private school where he taught students from all- over East Africa on various disciplines of Islamic studies. Examples of his students include Sheikh Abdallah Sale] al-Farsy and Sheikh Muhammad Kasim Mazrui.
He used to offer mosque darsas to urge Muslims not only to take Islamic education seriously but also westem education. He also taught many students in madrasas and mosques at the coast.
He defended the pursuit of westem education as being not contrary to Islamic teaching by arguing on the basis of such hadith of the prophet which urged Muslims to seek knowledge even if in China.
He encouraged Muslim women to seek education, especially religious knowledge.
He is credited for the opening of the ?rst Arab school for the teaching of Islamic Studies.
He championed for the inclusion of Arabic in public schools.
He had in his personal library many books on Islam and donated most of them to public libraries.
He wrote many books both in Arabic and Kiswahili on a variety of Islamic topics to meet the educational needs of the Muslims. Examples include
Hidayatul Atfal (“Guidance of Children) and Masoma Ya Dini (“Religious Education”) ’
He promoted the teaching of Islamic Religious Education in Schools.
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