The Iraqi senior historian died aged 73

Baghdad- INA

The famous Iraqi investigator and historian Imad Abdel Salam Raouf (1948-2021) passed away in the city of Erbil, whose studies varied between the history of Iraq from the Abbasid era until the twentieth century. He also investigated dozens of manuscripts in the translations, travels, poetry, antiquities and urbanism fields.

The late born in Baghdad but he descended from Mosul, he graduated from the history department in 1970, then continued his postgraduate studies in Cairo, where he obtained a master’s degree for his thesis “The State of Mosul in the Jalili Era (1749-1834) in 1973, and a doctorate for a thesis titled Social Life In Iraq during the Mamluk era (1750-1831) in 1976.

Raouf taught modern history at the University of Baghdad until 2006, and headed the Center for the Revival of Arab Scientific Heritage there, before moving to Erbil and teaching at Salah al-Din University, from which he retired in 2015; devote himself to research, investigation and authorship.

Raouf wrote the Encyclopedia (The Linear Effects in the Qadiriyah Library), which was issued in five volumes between 1973 and 1980, in which he documented the manuscripts contained in the library of Sheikh Abdul Qadir al-Kilani Mosque in Baghdad, one of the most prominent book treasuries in the Abbasid state, with its contents of books on the sciences Quran, hadith, jurisprudence, language, history and biographies.

Many of his writings focused on history in the Ottoman era, including: Iraqi history and historians in the Ottoman era, Arab writing of their history in the Ottoman era, diplomatic and cultural aspects of the history of the Kurds in the Ottoman era, and he also dealt in other books with the Ottoman-Portuguese conflict in the Arabian Peninsula and others.

Raouf left more than a hundred books, including: the historical origins of Baghdad shops, the history of ancient drinking water projects in Baghdad, studies in gemology among the Arabs, princes and scholars from Kurdistan in the Ottoman era, the endowment of books in Baghdad, modern Syriac historians, and a study in the development of the curriculum Search history, and indexed Baghdad offices and many other books.