Islamic Thought in Africa : the collected works of Afa Ajura (1910-2004) and the impact of Ajuraism on Northern Ghana
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Islamic Thought in Africa : the collected works of Afa Ajura (1910-2004) and the impact of Ajuraism on Northern Ghana
（World thought in translation）
Yale University Press, c2021
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
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"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
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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 Yusuf Salih 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 Tijaniyyah Sufi clerics and traditional practices such as idol worship.
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