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'Abdillahi Nasir Jum'a was a Kenyan Shiite scholar who became an intellectual leader of a group of Kenyan Shias after the [[Islamic Revolution]] in [[Iran]].<ref>[http://fa.old.abna24.com/persian/cultural/archive/2009/06/16/157342/story.html The status of Kenyan Shiites (Persian)]</ref> He was born in a Sunni family in Mombasa, Kenya, on [[1 June]], 1932.<ref>[http://www.shabestan.ir/TextVersionDetail/1136823 Death of a great Shiite scholar in Kenya (Persian)]</ref>

In 1950, Nassir went to [[Zanzibar]] in [[Tanzania]], where he studied in a Teacher Training College. He then returned to Mombasa, where he began teaching at the Arab Primary School and the Mombasa Institute of Muslim Education.

In 1964, Abdillahi went to Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, where he cooperated with BBC as a supervisor of the Arabic-Swahili section. Since 1965, he has been the editor-in-chief of the Swahili section of Oxford University Press, the East African Section. And from 1974 to 1977, he became the head of the East African Section of Oxford University Press. Before 1980, he returned to Mombasa.