Title Sheikh Al-Hajj Afa Occupation Imam
Lecturer Other names Afa Seidu Religion Islam | Nationality Ghanaian Name Saeed Zakaria Ethnicity Dagomba people | |
Full Name (Sa‘id) Arabic: سعيد Alma mater Islamic University of Madinah | ||
Saeed Abubakr Zakaria is a Ghanaian Islamic scholar and leader of the Anbariya Islamic Institute in Tamale, Ghana. He is spiritual leader of Anbariya Sunni Community in Ghana. He succeeded Afa Ajura, who died on December 22, 2004.
Zakaria studied at the Islamic University of Madinah in the 1970s after receiving a scholarship. He returned to the Institute to teach after he graduated in 1985 with a BA in Islamic law and an M.A. in Islamic theology. Zakaria served as an Imam in Canada from 1997 until May 2007, when he returned to Ghana to head the Anbariya Islamic Institute.
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