Islamic Thought in Africa: The Collected Works of Afa Ajura (1910-2004) and the Impact of Ajuraism on Northern Ghana by Ajura, Alhaj Yusuf Salih

Islamic Thought in Africa: The Collected Works of Afa Ajura (1910-2004) and the Impact of Ajuraism on Northern Ghana (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300207118)

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Islamic Thought in Africa: The Collected Works of Afa Ajura (1910-2004) and the Impact of Ajuraism on Northern Ghana by Ajura, Alhaj Yusuf Salih

Islamic Thought in Africa: The Collected Works of Afa Ajura (1910-2004) and the Impact of Ajuraism on Northern Ghana

$85.00
Islamic Thought in Africa: The Collected Works of Afa Ajura (1910-2004) and the Impact of Ajuraism on Northern Ghana by Ajura, Alhaj Yusuf Salih

Islamic Thought in Africa: The Collected Works of Afa Ajura (1910-2004) and the Impact of Ajuraism on Northern Ghana

$85.00
Format: Hardcover
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The first book length-work on Afa Ajura and translation of his complete poems

This is the first English translation of and commentary on the collected poems of Alhaj Yūsuf Ṣāliḥ Ajura (1910-2004), a northern Ghanaian orthodox Islamic scholar, poet, and polemicist known as Afa Ajura, or "scholar from Ejura." The poems, all handwritten in Arabic script, mainly in the Ghanaian language of Dagbani and also Arabic, explore the author's socio-religious beliefs. In the accompanying introduction, the translator examines the diverse themes of the poems and how they challenge Tijāniyyah Sufi clerics and traditional practices such as idol worship.

Author: Alhaj Yusuf Salih Ajura, Zakyi Ibrahim
ISBN-10: 0300207115
ISBN-13: 9780300207118
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2021
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.38w x 0.94d
By Alhaj Yusuf Salih Ajura
By Alhaj Yusuf Salih Ajura
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Alhaj Yūsuf Sālih Ajura (1910-2004) was an orthodox Islamic scholar, poet, and polemicist from northern Ghana. Zakyi Ibrahim is professor and chair of the Religious Studies Department at California State University, Fullerton.

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