Yusuf Soalih also called Afa Ajura (1890-2004), was a

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

ian

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, a

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, and the founder and leader of a sect in

. Afa Ajura was a proponent of

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shunning pre-Islamic pagan practices, and whom some have referred to as a precursor to

Wahhabi Wahhabism ( ar, ٱلْوَهَّابِيَةُ, translit=al-Wahhābiyyah) is a Sunni Islamic revivalist and fundamentalist movement associated with the reformist doctrines of the 18th-century Arabian Islamic scholar, theologian, preacher, an ...

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in Ghana. He established the Anbariyya Islamic Institute in

Tamale A tamale, in Spanish tamal, is a traditional Mesoamerican dish made of masa, a dough made from nixtamalized corn, which is steamed in a corn husk or banana leaf. The wrapping can either be discarded prior to eating or used as a plate. Tamale ...

in the 1940s. He died in

on December 22, 2004. He was succeeded by

Saeed Abubakr Zakaria 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 December 22, 2004. Zakaria s ...

in 2007 as leader of the Anbariyya Sunni Community.

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Ahlussunna Wal Jama’a (ASWAJ)

Anbariya Sunni Community
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ajura, Yusuf Soalih Year of birth uncertain 2004 deaths Ghanaian imams Ghanaian Muslims Ghanaian theologians Yusuf, Soalih Ajura Sunni Muslim scholars 1890 births

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