Hazim Abdallah Khedr

Hazem Abdullah Khader (1932 - 1998) was an Iraqi historian and researcher who specialized in Andalusian Arabic literature. He has published research is considered one of the Islamic preachers from the Muslim Brotherhood School in Iraq.

Birth and upbringing Khader was born in 1932 in the Iraqi city of Mosul Ibn Shahid al-Andalusi: his life and literature. Description of the animal in Andalusian poetry: the era of the cults and the Almoravids.

Articles Puffs from Arafat. Ibn Bassam and his book Al Thakhira. The scholar and writer Abdul Malik bin Habib. The writer Abu Al-Mughirah bin Hazm Al-Andalusi: A study in his prose. Abu Marwan Ibn Hayyan, a writer. Islamic features in the poetry of Abu Tammam. Jihadi Prose in the Age of the Almoravids. The features of Islamic civilization in the sermons of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace. Among the figures of culture in Andalusia: the literary judge Munther bin Saeed Al-Balouti. Abu Abdullah Al-Humaidi and his book “Jethwat Al-Muqtabas”. Education in Andalusia until the end of the fourth century.

Political and advocacy activities Khader belonged to the Muslim Brotherhood, and one of his colleagues in the organization was Professor Educator Ghanem Hammoudat. Khader was persecuted during the royal era because of his advocacy activity.

He was arrested for a period after the July 14, 1958 coup and the explosion of the Shawaf movement in Mosul. He was also arrested on March 8, 1959, then released.

The security services did not hesitate to pursue him. Ibrahim Khalil Al-Allaf, professor of modern history at the University of Mosul, said: “I cannot describe how happy he was when I gave him a copy of an official document, which is a security report written about him in 1956 when he was a student at the College of Arts - University of Baghdad. In it, he belongs to the Islamic Brothers Association, and he and a number of his fellow students went to Tal Afar and Sinjar to spread the ideas of this association. I had obtained this document from the files of Nineveh Governate since the early seventies of the last century when I was completing my master’s thesis on the Wilayat of Mosul.”

The previous regime removed Khader from the university to the Directorate of Education in Mosul for the period from 1977 to 1986, because of his Islamic political activity.

Death He died in 1998 in a hospital in Baghdad after suffering from brain cancer. He underwent surgery and died of cardiac arrest a week after the operation was successful.