CHAMPAIGN - Mr. Mohammad Yasin Nassimi, father of Prof. Masooda Bashir at UIUC, was a very prominent member of the Afghan community in the U.S. and around the world. He passed away the morning of June 22, 2024, in Champaign at the house of Masooda and Rashid Bashir.He was buried on Monday, June 24, 2024, at Oaklawn Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Fishers, Ind.Mr. Nassimi was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and was blessed to have lived a long life as a great scholar, statesman, father, husband, brother and great-great-grandfather. He had vast knowledge and was an avid writer having authored over 20 books on the Islamic faith, religion, world politics and other topics.He started from humble beginnings and was the first person in his family to go to high school and then college. He earned his master's degree in education from Indiana University in Bloomington and Chapmen College in California in 1963. He returned to Afghanistan and was a professor at Kabul University. He then worked in the gov

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