Intro
This short booklet seems to have been published in the 2000’s. We have published it and it will be back to give it a proper review shortly. It mentions how Chief Mahadi Appah got into contact with the Ahmadi Mullah Abdur Rahim Nayyar was sent to them only after they sent a heavy amount of money to Qadian. Al-Hajj Abdul Rahim Nayyar who sailed from London to Freetown, in Sierra Leone. After a short stay he arrived in 28th of February 1921 to Saltpond, Ghana.and started preaching in the first week of March 1921.[4][6] Following a lecture, the Fante community “believed there and then”, following which an oath of allegiance was held.[5] In the history of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Mahdi Appah is regarded as the first Ghanaian to become an Ahmadi Muslim.[7] Despite resistance from northern clerics, the Fante Muslims converted en masse, giving immediate rise to the Ahmadiyya movement in Ghana.[4][6]
Having established the Ahmadiyya movement in Ghana, Nayyar left within a month for Lagos, in Nigeria, before returning again in fall of 1921.[8] Nayyar left the colony once again in 1922 and was replaced by Al Hajj Fadl-ul-Rahman Hakim, as the first permanent missionary to Ghana.[8][9] In 1923, Hakim started an elementary school in Saltpond.[8] Further primary schools were opened in a number of other towns and villages, such as in Mumford and Potsin, all in the coastal regions.[10] By 1927, the Community numbered 3,000 across forty localities in the southern regions and the Ashanti Empire. In 1927, an increased missionary outlook was adopted, which facilitated its spread among the Fante people in the south, the Wala people in the north, and the Ashanti people in between.[9][11] In 1929, Hakim left the colony, only to return again in 1933, for another two years.[12] According to Samwini, the rapid expansion posed a threat to the very existence of Christianity and the Sunni order in the country.[13]
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The PDF
Early History of Ahmadiyyat in Ghana Eng
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Links and Related Essays
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmadiyya_in_Ghana
https://ahmadiyyafactcheckblog.com/2018/10/16/trimingham-j-spencer-the-influence-of-islam-upon-africa-1968/
https://ahmadiyyafactcheckblog.com/2018/09/20/an-ahmadiyya-homeopathy-clinic-in-ghana/
Bibliography Alfazl Qadian,India issues March,April,May, 1921
- Fisher, Humphrey (1963). 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.
- Wilks, Ivor (2002). Wa and the Wala Islam and Polity in Northwestern Ghana. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521894340.
- Trimingham, J. Spencer (1959). Islam in West Africa. Oxford University Press.
- Antoine, Mikelle (2010). Practice and Conversion of Asante Market Women to the Ahmadiya Muslim Mission in the late 20th Century. Michigan State University. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2015-12-29.
- Acquah, Francis (2011). The Impact of African Traditional Religious Beliefs and Cultural Values on ChristianMuslim Relations in Ghana from 1920 through the Present: A Case Study of Nkusukum-Ekumfi-Enyan area of the Central Region (PDF). University of Exeter.
- Ayuba, Ibrahim Alidu (2011). Intra-Religious conflicts among Muslim Ummah (Community) (PDF). Kwame Nkrumah University, Ghana.
- Sarbah, Cosmas Justice Ebo (2010). A critical study of Christian-Muslim relations in the Central Region of Ghana with special reference to traditional Akan values (PDF). University of Birmingham.
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