Yusuf Soalih Ajura Explained

Religion:	Islam
Honorific Prefix:	Islamic scholar
Yusuf Soalih Ajura
Birth Name:	Yusuf
Birth Date:	1890 contested
Birth Place:	Ejura, Ghana
Death Date:	December 22, 2004 (aged 114)
Death Place:	Tamale
Resting Place:	Anbariyya Islamic Institute
Other Names:	Afa Ajura
Nationality:	Ghanaian
Ethnicity:	Dagomba
Region:	West Africa
Denomination:	Sunni
Jurisprudence:	Hanbali
Movement:	Salafi

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]

See also

• Moulvi Abdul Wahab Adam
• Yaa-Naa Yakubu Andani II

Further reading

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

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Afa Ajura is dead. Ghana News Agency . GhanaWeb . December 23, 2004. 22 January 2014.
2. Book: Unveiling Modernity in Twentieth-Century West African Islamic Reforms. Ousman Kobo. BRILL. 2012. 9789004233133. 26 January 2014.
3. Web site: Al Sunni Muslim sect gets new leader. Ghana News Agency. GhanaWeb. June 23, 2007. 22 January 2014. 18 February 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140218205314/http://ghanaweb.net/GhanaHomePage/regional/artikel.php?ID=126047. dead.