Sayyar al Jamil () is a Research Professor at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies in

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. Jamil was born in Iraq in 1952, and lived in Mosul before receiving his PhD at the

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in Scotland.

Writings on generational throughout Arab history

Jamil's website states a number of works which he has published in Arabic, but he is mostly widely known for his work on his contribution of a new theory (known in Arabic as or "successive generational shifts") of historical development, in which successive generations shape the course of events over roughly periodic cycles of 30 years or (the estimated duration of a single generation).

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Iraqi scholars University of Mosul alumni 1962 births Living people Alumni of the University of St Andrews {{qatar-bio-stub