Yusuf Soalih Ajura
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Yusuf Soalih 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. 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. 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 Anbariy
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Ghanaian religious leader (1890-2004)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusuf_Soalih_Ajura
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2024-03-29T05:09:55Z
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