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Skinner, David E. "Conversion to Islam and the promotion of ‘Modern’Islamic Schools in Ghana." Journal of religion in Africa 43.4 (2013): 426–450. Weiss, Holger. "Variations in the colonial representation of Islam and Muslims in Northern Ghana, Ca. 1900–1930." Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 25.1 (2005): 73–95. Wilks, Ivor.
Ahmadiyyah: A study in Contemporary Islam on the West African Coast. Oxford University Press. Samwini, Nathan (2006). The Muslim Resurgence in Ghana Since 1950: Its Effects Upon Muslims and Muslim-Christian Relations. Berlin: Lit Verlag. ISBN 9783825889913. Wilks, Ivor (2002). Wa and the Wala Islam and Polity in Northwestern Ghana. Cambridge ...
The topic of witchcraft is often brought up in songs, and is present in the music culture in Ghana. Hearing about the topic through music adds to its broader relevance in its culture. Sang in Akan, the dominant non-English language in Ghana, popular songs reference witchcraft as explanation for things such as infertility, alcoholism, and death ...
Jāmi’ah al-Ahmadīyyah (Arabic: جامعة الأحمدية; Jāmi’ah al-Ahmadīyyah, "the Ahmadiyya University") is an International Islamic seminary and educational institute with campuses in Pakistan, United Kingdom, India, Ghana, Canada, Germany, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, [1] [2] [3] In addition, there are affiliated Mu'alimeen centers (Missionary Training Centres) in Pakistan ...
Ibrahim Basha Iddris also called Mallam Basha or Sheikh Bayaan, is a Ghanaian Islamic preacher, and one of the campaigners of the Sunni Islamic movement in Ghana. He founded Nuriyya Islamic Institute in Tamale in 1969 and is the leader of Masjidul Bayaan in Tamale. [1] He is widely considered to have been the initiator in transforming the ...
Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Bamba was born in 1940. He was raised in Alabar A.E.B. or Nguwan Gonjawa, a suburb in the Kumasi metropolis of Ghana.His father was Muhammad Ibrahim Bamba and his mothers were Hajia Khadijah (Mma Adizatu) and Hajia Fatima (Mma Hajia), daughters of Mma Gyamata, who was the daughter of scholar and first chief of Gonja community in Kumasi, Mallam Sani.
A native of Northern Ghana, Azumah grew up as a Muslim, in a Muslim family, and converted to Christianity when he was 17. [2] He received an external diploma in Christian theology from Trinity Theological Seminary, Ghana with University of Ghana, Legon (1989), a M.A. (1994) and a Ph.D. (1998) from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Islam has existed in Africa for a long time. It first arrived in North Africa up until around the 8th century when the religion began to spread south and west. It spread across sub-saharan Africa since the 8th century onwards, where Islam is the majority or significant minority religion in many modern countries.