Islamic Thought in Africa : the collected works of Afa Ajura (1910-2004) and the impact of Ajuraism on Northern Ghana

Author(s)

• Ajura, Yūsuf Ṣāliḥ, Alhaj
• Ibrahim, M. Zakyi
• Angle, Stephen
• March, Andrew
• Shapiro, Ian

Bibliographic Information

Islamic Thought in Africa : the collected works of Afa Ajura (1910-2004) and the impact of Ajuraism on Northern Ghana

Alhaj Yusuf Salih Ajura (Afa Ajura) ; translated by Zakyi Ibrahim

（World thought in translation）

Yale University Press, c2021

• : hardcover

Note

"This is the first English translation of and commentary on the collected poems of Alhaj Yūsuf Ṣāliḥ Ajura ... The poems, all handwritten in Arabic script, mainly in the Ghanaian language of Dagbani and also Arabic ..."--Back cover

Series editors: Stephen Angle, Andrew March, Ian Shapiro

Includes Bibliographical references and index

Details

• NCID: BC11251521
• ISBN:
  • 9780300207118
• LCCN: 2020951712
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: nicara
• Place of Publication: New Haven
• Pages/Volumes: 231 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 896.35
  • DC23 : 896.351
  • LCC : MLCM 2023/44155 (B)
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Ajura, Yusuf Salih -- Translations into English
  • LCSH : Ajura, Y?usuf ?S?ali?h, Alhaj, 1910?-2004 -- Translations into English
  • LCSH : Ajura, Yūsuf Ṣāliḥ Alhaj, 1910?-2004 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Islam -- Ghana
  • LCSH : Islamic poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB19188396