Saeed Abubakr Zakaria is a

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and leader of the Anbariya Islamic Institute in

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. He is the spiritual leader of Anbariya Sunni Community in

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. He succeeded

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, who died on 22 December 2004. Zakaria studied at the

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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

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. Zakaria served as an

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from 1997 until May 2007, when he returned to Ghana to head the Anbariya Islamic Institute.

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