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Majid Khadduri (
September 27 1909 –
January 25,
2007) was an
Iraqi–born founder of the
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Middle East Studies program. Internationally, he was recognized as a leading authority on a wide variety of Islamic subjects, modern history and the politics of the Middle East. He was the author of more than 35 books in English and Arabic and hundreds of articles.
Personal life
Khadduri was born in
Mosul,
Iraq in 1909 where he lived until 1928, when he graduated high school. Afterwards he headed to
Lebanon and the
American University of Beirut, where he received his B.A. in 1932. He followed this up with a
Ph. D in International Law and Political Science in 1938. From 1939 to 1947 he worked for the
Iraqi Ministry of Education and as a law professor at the
Higher Teachers College. In 1946 he was a member of the first Iraqi delegation to the
United Nations and helped draft the organization's charter.
He had two brothers, Khalid, and Dulel, and two sister Mathela and Khairiya. He married Madjia Dawaff, who died in 1972, and had two children: Farid and Shirin, who in turn gave him three grandchildren. He died on January 25, 2007 at a care facility in
Potomac, Maryland.
Academic Life
After his experiences at the United Nations, Khadduri returned to the
United States, where he was a professor at
Indiana University and his alma mater, the University of Chicago, before settling at
Johns Hopkins University, where he founded the SAIS Middle Eastern Studies program and served until 1970. From 1960 to 1980 he served as director of Center for Middle East Studies.
Works as Editor
The Islamic Law of Nations: Shaybani's Siyar (February 2002)
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