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- ↑ Abdulai Iddrisu (2009). Contesting Islam: "Homegrown Wahhabism," Education and Muslim Identity in Northern Ghana, 1920--2005. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. p. 283. ISBN 9781109220643.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ John O. Hunwick, R. Rex S. O'Fahey (2003). Arabic Literature of Africa, Volume 4: The Writings of Western Sudanic Africa. BRILL. p. 814. ISBN 9789004124448.
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