Jawad Ali

20th-century Iraqi Muslim historian

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History of Islam, History of the Arabs, Pre-Islamic Arabia

Notable worksal-Mufassal fi Tarikh al-Arab Qabl al-Islam

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.

Biography

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]

Death

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]

Works

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]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "File on Jawad Ali". Iraqi Academy of Sciences (2669). 22 October 1947 – via Ministry of Education.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Dr. Jawad Ali". Baghdad University Museum. 2019.
^ Al Mutabbai, Hamid (1985). "The Scholar and Historian, Jawad Ali". Bayn Al Nahrain Magazine (59–60): 93.
^ Corm, Georges (2020). Arab Political Thought: Past and Present. C. Hurst & Co. p. 276. ISBN 9781787383678.
^ Jamme, Albert (1954). "Ta'rikh al 'arabi qabl al-islam [History of the Arabs before Islam], by Jawad 'Ali, Vol. 3: The political section". Middle East Journal. 8: 213 ff. ProQuest 1290740285.
^ Ali, Jawad (1961). Tarikh al-Arab fi al-Islam: As-Seerah an-Nabawiyyah (Revised ed.). Manshurat Al Jamal (published 2014). ISBN 978-9922630397.