Yusuf Soalih Ajura

Yusuf Soalih Ajura

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Ein sex anaa gender	male
Ein country of citizenship	Ghana
Name wey dem give am	Yusuf
Ein date of birth	1890
Place dem born am	Ejura
Date wey edie	22 December 2004
Place wey edie	Tamale
Languages edey speak, rep anaa sign	English
Ein occupation	preacher
Religion anaa worldview	Islam

Yusuf Soalih dem sanso call Afa Ajura (1890-2004), na he be a Ghanaian Islamic scholar, a preacher, political activist, den de founder den leader of a sect insyd Ghana. Na Afa Ajura be a proponent of Sunni Islam wey dey shun pre-Islamic pagan practices, wey na sam refer to am as a precursor to Wahhabi reformism insyd Ghana. He establish de Anbariyya Islamic Institute insyd Tamale in the 1940s. He die insyd Tamale on December 22, 2004. He be succeeded by Saeed Abubakr Zakaria insyd 2007 as leader of de Anbariyya Sunni Community.

Read further

• Abdulai Iddrisu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) (2009). Contesting Islam: "Homegrown Wahhabism," Education and Muslim Identity in Northern Ghana, 1920--2005. ProQuesPress. ISBN 9781109220643.
• Abdulai Iddrisu (2012). Contesting Islam in Africa: Homegrown Wahhabism and Muslim Identity in Northern Ghana, 1920-2010. Carolina Academic Press. ISBN 9781594609169.
• Ousman Kobo (2012). Unveiling Modernity in Twentieth-Century West African Islamic Reforms. Brill. ISBN 9789004233133.
• James Gow; Funmi Olonisakin; Ernst Dijxhoorn (2013). West African Militancy and Violence; Contemporary Security Studies. Routledge. ISBN 9781135968502.
• J. S. Pobee (1991). Religion and Politics in Ghana. Asempa Publishers, Christian Council of Ghana. ISBN 9789964781798.
• Historical Society of Ghana (2002). Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, Issue 6. University of Michigan.
• Historical Society of Ghana (1996). Religion en Afrique, Volume 26. Brill Academic Publishers (University of Michigan).
• Abudulai Yakubu (2006). The Abudu-Andani crisis of Dagbon: a historical and legal perspective of the Yendi skin affairs. MPC Ltd. ISBN 9789988032517.
• University of Ibadan. Department of Religious Studies (1994). Orita: Ibadan Journal of Religious Studies, Volumes 26-29. Department of Religious Studies, University of Ibaden.
• Nordiska Afrikainstitutet (1969). Research Report, Issue 133 (University of Michigan). Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.
• Weiss, Holger (2007). Begging and almsgiving in Ghana: Muslim positions towards poverty and distress. Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. ISBN 9789171065971.
• Amnesty International (1989). The Amnesty International Report. Amnesty International Publications (University of California).
• Joseph, Morrison Skelly (2009). Political Islam from Muhammad to Ahmadinejad: Defenders, Detractors, and Definitions: Defenders, Detractors, and Definitions. Praeger Security International: ABC-CLIO. p. 281. ISBN 9780313372247.

External links

• Ahlussunna Wal Jama’a (ASWAJ)
• Anbariya Sunni Community