Global InformationYusuf Soalih Ajura information
Islamic scholar Yusuf Soalih Ajura | |
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| Born | Yusuf 1890 contested Ejura, Ghana |
| Died | December 22, 2004 (aged 114) Tamale |
| Resting place | Anbariyya Islamic Institute |
| Religion | Islam |
| Nationality | Ghanaian |
| Region | West Africa |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanbali |
| Movement | Salafi |
| Other names | Afa Ajura |
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Yusuf Soalih also called Afa Ajura (1890-2004), was a Ghanaian Islamic scholar, a preacher, political activist, and the founder and leader of a sect in Ghana.[1] Afa Ajura was a proponent of Sunni Islam shunning pre-Islamic pagan practices, and whom some have referred to as a precursor to Wahhabi reformism in Ghana.[2] He established the Anbariyya Islamic Institute in Tamale in the 1940s. He died in Tamale on December 22, 2004. He was succeeded by Saeed Abubakr Zakaria in 2007 as leader of the Anbariyya Sunni Community.[3]
- ^ Ghana News Agency (December 23, 2004). "Afa Ajura is dead". GhanaWeb. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
- ^ Ousman Kobo (2012). Unveiling Modernity in Twentieth-Century West African Islamic Reforms. BRILL. ISBN 9789004233133. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
- ^ Ghana News Agency (June 23, 2007). "Al Sunni Muslim sect gets new leader". GhanaWeb. Archived from the original on 18 February 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2014.