# Sheikh Abdulkadir Nur Farah (Sheekh Cabdiqaadir Nuur Faarax)

> Sheikh Abdulkadir Nur Farah (1940-2013): Eyl-born scholar and judge, co-founder of Al-Furqan, killed in Garowe.

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## Who was he?

Sheikh Abdulkadir Nur Farah was a Somali cleric, preacher and Islamic scholar ([Wikipedia, Abdulkadir Nur Farah](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulkadir_Nur_Farah)). He was born in 1940 at Canjeel Teelawaa near Eyl, in Nugaal, to a herding family (same source). See [Nugaal](/en/regions/nugaal/).

## Study and work

He did not begin learning the Arabic alphabet until he was thirteen ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulkadir_Nur_Farah)). He went to school in Eyl, moved to Mogadishu in 1960, and graduated from an al-Azhar-linked school there in 1967 (same source). He then studied in Saudi Arabia and at the Islamic University of Madinah (same source).

After graduating he was sent to preach in Niger with his friend [Sheikh](/en/regions/sheikh/) Yusuf Adam, and the two later returned to Somalia, where they served as judges (same source). He co-founded the Al-Furqan Institute of Islamic Studies in Las Anod in 1994 with Sheikh [Abdinasir Haji Ahmed](/en/people/abdinasir-haji-ahmed/) and Sheikh [Ahmed Haji Abdirahman](/en/people/ahmed-haji-abdirahman/) ([Wikipedia, Abdinasir Haji Ahmed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdinasir_Haji_Ahmed)).

## Death

He was killed in Garowe on 15 February 2013, in an attack attributed to al-Shabaab ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulkadir_Nur_Farah)).

## In short

A Nugaal-born scholar and judge who taught for decades and was killed in Garowe in 2013.

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