Everything about Abu Bakr Effendi totally explained
Sheikh Abu Bakr Effendi (1835–1880) was a
qadi who was sent to the
Cape of Good Hope to teach the
Muslim community of the
Cape Malays.
He was from an
aristocratic
Quraishi family from
Mecca. At the request of the
British government, the
sultan of the
Ottoman empire sent a religious teacher from
Istanbul to the
Cape Colony in 1862. Other
imams in the Cape were mostly teaching the
Shafi`i school of
Islamic jurisprudence; he was a follower and the first teacher of
Hanafi school, for which he also established a
madrassa in
Cape Town. He gained notoriety in 1869 after ruling that
rock lobster and
snoek, two staple foods in the Cape, were
haraam.
He died aged 45, after having made several major contributions to
Islam in South Africa. Firstly, besides his role as teacher he also published the
Arabic Afrikaans Bayan ad-Din ("The Exposition of the Religion") in 1877. Printed by the Turkish Ministry of Education in
Istanbul, it's an interesting and significant part of
South Africa's history, and serves as a valuable reference of the Afrikaans usage during that era in the Islamic neighbourhoods of Cape Town. Secondly, he also introduced the
fez for men, as well as reinstated the
hijab for women.
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