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Islamic scholar Saeed Abubakr Zakaria | |
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| Title | Sheikh Al-Hajj Afa |
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| Born | (Sa‘id) Arabic: سعيد |
| Religion | Islam |
| Nationality | Ghanaian |
| Alma mater | Islamic University of Madinah |
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| Muslim leader | |
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Saeed Abubakr Zakaria is a Ghanaian Islamic scholar and leader of the Anbariya Islamic Institute in Tamale, Ghana. He is the spiritual leader of Anbariya Sunni Community in Ghana. He succeeded Afa Ajura, who died on 22 December 2004.[1]
Zakaria studied at the Islamic University of Madinah in the 1970s after receiving a scholarship. He returned to the Institute to teach after he graduated in 1985 with a BA in Islamic law and an M.A. in Islamic theology.[2] Zakaria served as an Imam in Canada from 1997 until May 2007, when he returned to Ghana to head the Anbariya Islamic Institute.[3]
- ^ Ghana News Agency (23 June 2007). "Al Sunni Muslim sect gets new leader". GhanaWeb. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
- ^ Abdulai Iddrisu (2009). Contesting Islam: "Homegrown Wahhabism," Education and Muslim Identity in Northern Ghana, 1920--2005. ProQuesPress. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- ^ Anbariya News Agency (11 June 2007). "SUCCESSOR OF SHEIKH YUSSIF SUALIH AJURA (Afa Ajura)". Anbariya Sunni Community. Retrieved 30 January 2014.