The University of Baghdad (UOB) ( ar, جامعة بغداد ''Jāmi'at Baghdād'') is the largest

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, tenth largest in the

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, and the largest university in the Arab world outside

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Nomenclature

Both University of Baghdad and Baghdad University are used interchangeably.

History

The College of Islamic Sciences claims that it originated in 1067 A.D. as Abu-Haneefa. However, the College of Law, the earliest of the modern institutions that were to become the first constituent Colleges (i.e. Faculties) of the University of Baghdad, was founded in 1908. The College of Engineering was established in 1921; the Higher Teachers Training College and the Lower College of Education in 1923, the College of Medicine in 1927, and the College of Pharmacy in 1936. In 1942, the first higher institution for girls, Queen Alia College, was established. In 1943, proposals for further new Colleges appeared, leading to the foundation of the College of Arts and the College of Science in 1949, and Abu Ghraib College of Agriculture in 1950. In September 2018, the university was listed in the ''

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'', a yearly classification of the best 1,250 universities in the world, for the first time.

Presidents

* Dr. Matti Aqrawi — 5 October 1957 – 1 August 1958 * Dr. Abdul Jabbar Abdullah — 19 March 1959 – 8 March 1963 * Dr. Abed Al-Azeez Al-Duri — 10 February 1963 – 27 November 1965 and 10 September 1966 – 7 August 1968 * Dr. Jassem Mohammad Al-Kallaf — 9 September 1968 – 8 August 1970 * Dr. Abed Allatif Al-Badry — 8 August 1970 – 1 March 1971 * Dr. Saad Abed Al-Bakki Al-Rawi — 15 June 1971 – 23 January 1974 * Dr. Taha Ibrahim Al-Abdalla — 14 March 1974 – 15 October 1977 * Dr. Sulttan Abed Al-Kader Al-Shawi — 18 October 1977 – 1 March 1978 * Dr. Taha Tayh Diab Al-Ne'ami — 30 June 1980 – 27 December 1990 * Dr. Adil Shakir Al-Tai — 10 July 1990 – 28 February 1991 * Dr. Khidir Jasim Al-Duri — 1 March 1991 – 10 November 1993 * Dr. Abed Al-Iillah Yossif Al-Kashab — 14 November 1993 – 7 June 2001 * Dr. Mohammad Abed Allah Falah Al-Rawi — 12 June 2001 – 30 April 2003 * Dr. Sammi Abed Al-Mahdi Al-Mudaffar — 24 May 2003 – 28 September 2003 * Dr. Musa Juwad Aziz Al-Musawi — 28 September 2003 – 20 November 2012 * Dr. Alaa Abdulrasool Alkashwan — 20 November 2012 – 13 May 2019 * Dr. Qusi Alsuhil — 13 May 2019 * Dr. Nabeel Alsahib — 22 July 2020

Campuses

Al-Jadriya campus

* College of Engineering *

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College of Engineering * College of Science * College of Political Science * College of Physical Education * College of Science for Women * College of Education for Women * Institute of Laser for Postgraduate Studies * Institute of Urban and Regional Planning * Institute of Genetic Engineering * Institute of Accounting & Financial Studies * College of Agricultural

Bab Al-Muadham campus

* College of Medicine * College of Dentistry * College of Pharmacy * College of Nursing * College of Education –

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* College of Arts * College of Languages * College of Information * College of Islamic Sciences

Al-Waziriya campus

* College of Physical Education for Women * College of Law * College of Administration, Business and Economy * College of Education –

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* College of Veterinary

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Al-Kindi Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī (; ar, أبو يوسف يعقوب بن إسحاق الصبّاح الكندي; la, Alkindus; c. 801–873 AD) was an Arab Muslim philosopher, polymath, mathematician, physician ...

College of Medicine

Notable alumni

* Mohammed Alkobaisi – Islamic scholar *

Hisham N. Ashkouri Hisham N. Ashkouri ( ar, هشام أشكري, born August 15, 1948) is a Boston and New York City, New York-based architect. Ealry Life Ashkouri was born August 15, 1948 in Baghdad, Iraq. He graduated first in class in 1970 with a Bachelor of Ar ...

– architect *

Serwan Baban Serwan Muhammad J. Baban FRGS FGS (born 1958) is a Kurdish technocrat who served as Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources in the Kurdistan Regional Government from 2012 to 2014. Currently he is the Chief Scientific Advisor for the Council of ...

– Minister in the

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Venus Faiq Venus Faiq (Arabic: فينوس فائق) (born in 1963) is an Iraqi-Kurdish and Dutch writer, poet, translator, editor, and journalist. Her works includes poetry, articles, in both Kurdish and Arabic languages, as well as working as a volunteer ...

(born 1963), Iraqi-Kurd Dutch writer, journalist, and poet. *

Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz (Arabic: عبد الرحمن البزاز; 20 February 1913 – 28 June 1973) was an Iraqi politician, reformist and writer. He was a pan-Arab nationalist and served as the Dean of Baghdad Law College and later as Prime M ...

– former Prime Minister of Iraq *

Muzaffar Al-Nawab Muthaffar al-Nawab or Muzaffar al-Nawwab (; 1 January 1934 – 20 May 2022) was an Iraqi poet and political critic. Life and career Al-Nawwab was born in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1934 into an aristocratic Shi'ite family of Indian origin that appreciate ...

– Iraqi poet and writer *

Emad Zaki Yehya Emad Zaki Yehya (May 12, 1955 – August 3, 2016) (Arabic:), was born in Baghdad. He was an Iraqi petroleum engineer, author, scholar, and a PhD lecturer at Simón Bolívar University in Caracas, Venezuela Biography Dr. Yehya was born in Bagh ...

– international petroleum consultant and former president of Reservoir Engineering in the Ministry of Oil *

Saadoun al-Dulaimi Saadoun al-Dulaimi ( ar, سعدون الدليمي ''Saʿadūn ad-Dulaimī'') (born 1954) is an Iraqi politician, the ex-minister of defence for two terms, ex-minister of culture, and a former MP for two consecutive terms. Early life and educat ...

– former Iraqi Defense Minister * Ghanim Al-Jumaily – Professor of Engineering at

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; former Ambassador of

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Ghassan Muhsen Ghassan Muhsen (Arabic: غسان محسن ; born 1945) is an Iraqi career diplomat, as well as an artist with over 18 solo exhibitions and over 30 joint shows in four continents ranging from New Delhi to New York, from Dubai to Tunis. Currentl ...

– diplomat and artist *

Ahmad Obeidat Ahmad Obeidat (born 18 November 1938) is a former Jordanian politician who served as the 26th Prime Minister of Jordan from 10 January 1984 to 4 April 1985. He was born in Hartha, Irbid 18 November 1938. - Teacher, Ministry of Education, 1957. ...

– former

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Sinan Al Shabibi Sinan Al-Shabibi ( ar, سنان الشبيبي; 1 July 1941 – 8 January 2022) was an Iraqi economist who served as the governor of the Central Bank of Iraq from September 2003 to October 2012. Early life and education Born in Baghdad on 1 J ...

– former Governor of the

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Rihab Taha Rihab Rashid Taha al-Azawi ( ar, رحاب رشيد طه; born 12 November 1957) is an Iraqi microbiologist, dubbed Dr Germ by United Nations weapons inspectors, who worked in Saddam Hussein's biological weapons program. A 1999 report commission ...

– biological weapons chief *

Jalal Talabani Jalal Talabani ( ku, مام جەلال تاڵەبانی, translit=Celal Talebanî; ar, جلال طالباني ; 1933 – 3 October 2017) was an Iraqi Kurdish politician who served as the sixth president of Iraq from 2006 to 2014, as well as ...

– former

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– President of

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Donny George Youkhanna Donny George Youkhanna (Arabic: , syr, ܕܘܢܝ ܓܘܪܓ ܝܘܚܢܢ) (October 23, 1950 – March 11, 2011) was an Iraqi-Assyrian archaeologist, anthropologist, author, curator, and scholar, and a visiting professor at Stony Brook Universi ...

– archaeologist *

Muntadhar al-Zaidi Muntadhar al-Zaidi ( ar, منتظر الزيدي ''Muntaẓar az-Zaydī''; born 15 January 1979) is an Iraqi broadcast journalist who served as a correspondent for Iraqi-owned, Egyptian-based Al-Baghdadia TV. , al-Zaidi works with a Lebanes ...

– journalist * Hashim Jasin – spiritual leader ( Shura Council) of the

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* Suad Jawad – "The Queen of Dubbing" * Aqeel al-Mosawi – dentist, novelist, and photographer * Hazim Abdallah Khedr - historian and researcher specialized in Andalusian Arabic literature.

Notable development consultants

* Cyril Saunders, UNESCO Library Development consultant, 1952–1955 * Harold Bonny, UNESCO Library Development consultant, 1957–1958 * Donald Powell (

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/ICA Library Development consultant at Abu Ghraib College, 1957 * William S. Dix (

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), Ford Foundation Library Development consultant, 1958 * Des Raj Kalia, UNESCO Library Development consultant, 1959–1960 * Stephen Ford (

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

) and Paul Kebabian ( New York Public Library), Ford Foundation Library Development consultants, 1961–1962. * Rudolph Gjelsness (Professor and Head of the Department of Library Science, University of Michigan), Ford Foundation Library Development consultant, 1962–1963 * David T. Wilder (University Librarian, University of Michigan – Oakland), Ford Foundation Library Development consultant, 1965–66 * Anand P. Srivastava (Head of the Department of Library Science,

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consultant, Graduate School of Library Science, 1968–1973 * Khalil M. H. Al-Shamma', Former Dean, College of Administration, Business and Economy, Reorganization of the University of Baghdad and The Higher Education sector, 1969, Donated his rich personal library with its complete furniture to the Central Library of the University of Baghdad /Al-Jadriya Campus 2012.

References

External links

Official website

University of Baghdad Website
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Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...

Education in Baghdad Educational institutions established in the 20th century 1957 establishments in Iraq