Ahmad Hassan Abdullah [SEP] country of citizenship
Ahmad Hassan Abdullah
Ahmad Hassan Abdullah (, born Albert Chepkurui on July 29, 1981 in Kaptarakwa, Kenya) is a long-distance and cross country runner, now representing Qatar after his switch from Kenya in 2003. Other runners who have made the same switch include Saif Saeed Shaheen.
Abdullah has won bronze medals at the 2005 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and the 2004 and 2008 editions of the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships. He represented Qatar over 10,000 metres at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and three times at the
tutorship of the Comorian scholar Sayyid Abal-Hassan bin Ahmad bin Abdullah (Mwenye Ba
Hassan d. 1883). Sayyid Abal Hassan bin Ahmad bin Abdullah had acquired his knowledge in the Hejaz
at the same time as scholars including the famous Mufti of Mecca Sayyid Ahmad bin Zayn Dahlan and
Sheikh Ali bin Abdullah Al-Mazrui (d. 1896). Sayyid Abal-Hassan Bin Ahmad Bin Abdallah Jamalal-layl was an elder cousin of
Habib Swaleh and was also the teacher of the famous Zanzibari scholar Sayyid Ahmad