You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Arabic. (June 2024) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
Content in this edit is translated from the existing Arabic Wikipedia article at [[:ar:جواد علي]]; see its history for attribution.{{Translated|ar|جواد علي}} to the talk page. |
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this articlebyadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Jawad Ali" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
Jawad Ali (1907–1987) was an Iraqi historian and academic who specialized in the history of both Islam and the Arabs. He is best known for his work al-Mufassal fi Tarikh al-Arab Qabl al-Islam (The Abridged History of the Arabs before Islam), which is one of the most referenced works on pre-Islamic Arabia. Jawad Ali also had a doctorate from the University of Hamburg in 1939, and worked at the History department in the University of Baghdad starting from 1950.
Jawad Ali
| |
|---|---|
 | |
| Native name |
جواد علي
|
| Born | 1907 (aged 80) Kadhimiya, Baghdad Vilayet, Ottoman Iraq |
| Died | 1987 Baghdad, Iraq |
| Occupation | Historian, academic and writer |
| Language | Arabic |
| Alma mater | University of Hamburg |
| Period | 20th century CE |
| Subject |
|
| Notable works | al-Mufassal fi Tarikh al-Arab Qabl al-Islam |
Jawad Ali was born in a town located in the Kadhimiya district of Baghdad, Iraq. After completing most of his studies in his homeland, he migrated to Germany where he would receive a doctorate from the University of Hamburg in 1939.[1][2] After his return from Germany, he married an Iraqi woman and had three sons from this marriage, all of whom would become influential academics in future.[1][2] With his family, he went on travels to Massachusetts and also the United Kingdom, where he also visited the institutes in those places as a visiting professor. In 1950, he was a professor at the History department of the University of Baghdad.[2][3]
In his older years, a terminal illness plagued him, and eventually he died from it at the age of 80 on the 26th of September in the year 1987.[1][2]
Jawad Ali mainly specialized in Islamic history, as well as the history of the Arabs in general.[4] The al-Mufassal fi Tarikh al-Arab Qabl al-Islam (The Abridged History of the Arabs before Islam) is Jawad Ali's best known work regarding pre-Islamic history, and has been one of the most referenced works on the subject.[5] In his later years, he also wrote a Seerah (prophetic biography) known as Tarikh al-Arab fi al-Islam, which, unlike his previous work on pre-Islamic Arabia, concerned the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the Arabs after the rise of Islam, as well as being written in only one volume.[6]
  | This article about an Iraqi writer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |