Yusuf Soalih Ajura

Islamic scholar Yusuf Soalih Ajura
Title	Sheikh Al-Hajj Afa
Born	Yusuf 1890 contested Ejura
Died	December 22, 2004 (aged 114) Tamale
Resting place	Anbariyya Islamic Institute
Other names	Afa Ajura
Nationality	Ghanaian
Ethnicity	Dagomba
Region	West Africa
Occupation	Imam Mujaddid Islamic Instructor Educator Political Activist
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Hanbali
Movement	Salafi
Main interest(s)	Salafi Islamic Revivalism Anti-Bid‘ah
Notable idea(s)	Campaign against Tarbiya (Ru'ya) Opposition to Traditionalist and Tijaniyyah Doctrine
Notable work(s)	Founded Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaa'a in Ghana Established the Anbariya Sunni Community Initiator of Wahhabism in large parts of West Africa
Influenced by Shaykh Usman dan Fodio Alhaj Umar Bakri al-Salghawi Sheikh Abdallahi Yendi Mallam Bello Yoruba Mallam Baba Kete-krachi Afa Ali Sabali Mallam Dahman Dapkema Mallam Awudu Kpalume
Influenced Afa Basha (Sheikh Bayaan) Afa Seidu Sheikh Umar Ibrahim Imam Dr. Abdul-Aziz Umar Haroun Abubakari Tanko Ishaq Sheikh Abubakar Iddriss Abdullah (Afa Abu) Alhaji Mukhtar Ahmad Afa Issah Musa Moro Sheikh Umar Muhammad Mukhtar Sheikh Abdul-Hamid Idrisubilla Sheikh Abdus-Samad Mallam Salih Togo (aka Charlie) Mallam Issah Bello Dr. Tamim Abubakari Saeed Mikael Taqiyudeen Mohammed Mallam Shaaban Newtown Sheikh Kamaludeen Abubakar (Deputy Chief Imam) Mallam Hamza Abdul-Salam Nima Sheikh Saeed Umar Alhaji Abubakari Maula Togo (Sheikh Maha) Mallam Musah Abdulla Qadir Nima Mallam Riyaan Tema Mallam Muhammad Mufta'a Naafi'u Mallam Labaran Sheikh Adam Appiedu Asante

Alhaji Yusuf Soalih also called Afa Ajura (1890-2004), was a Ghanaian Islamic scholar, a preacher, political activist, proponent of the Sunni doctrine, and the founder and leader of the Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaa'a Islamic sect in Ghana.^[1] He is widely considered to have been the initiator of 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 Sheikh Saeed Abubakr Zakaria in 2007 as leader of the Anbariyya Sunni Community.^[3]

See also

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

References

1. Ghana News Agency (December 23, 2004). "Afa Ajura is dead". GhanaWeb. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
2. Ousman Kobo (2012). Unveiling Modernity in Twentieth-Century West African Islamic Reforms. BRILL. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
3. Ghana News Agency (June 23, 2007). "Al Sunni Muslim sect gets new leader". GhanaWeb. Retrieved 22 January 2014.

Further reading

• Abdulai Iddrisu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) (2009). Contesting Islam: "Homegrown Wahhabism," Education and Muslim Identity in Northern Ghana, 1920--2005. ProQuesPress. ISBN 9781109220643.
• Abdulai Iddrisu (2012). Contesting Islam in Africia: Homegrown Wahhabism and Muslim Identity in Northern Ghana, 1920-2010. Carolina Academic Press. ISBN 9781594609169.
• Ousman Kobo (2012). Unveiling Modernity in Twentieth-Century West African Islamic Reforms. BRILL. ISBN 9789004233133.
• James Gow, Funmi Olonisakin, Ernst Dijxhoorn (2013). West African Militancy and Violence; Contemporary Security Studies. Routledge. ISBN 9781135968502.

• J. S. Pobee (1991). Religion and Politics in Ghana. Asempa Publishers, Christian Council of Ghana. ISBN 9789964781798.
• Historical Society of Ghana (2002). Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, Issue 6. University of Michigan.
• Historical Society of Ghana (1996). Religion en Afrique, Volume 26. Brill Academic Publishers (University of Michigan).
• Abudulai Yakubu (2006). The Abudu-Andani crisis of Dagbon: a historical and legal perspective of the Yendi skin affairs. MPC Ltd. ISBN 9789988032517.
• University of Ibadan. Department of Religious Studies (1994). Orita: Ibadan Journal of Religious Studies, Volumes 26-29. Department of Religious Studies, University of Ibaden.
• Nordiska Afrikainstitutet (1969). Research Report, Issue 133 (University of Michigan). Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.
• Holger Weiss (2007). Begging and almsgiving in Ghana: Muslim positions towards poverty and distress. Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. ISBN 9789171065971.
• Amnesty International (1989). The Amnesty International Report. Amnesty International Publications (University of California).
• Joseph, Morrison Skelly (2009). Political Islam from Muhammad to Ahmadinejad: Defenders, Detractors, and Definitions: Defenders, Detractors, and Definitions. Praeger Security International: ABC-CLIO. p. 281. ISBN 9780313372247.

External links

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