Hazim Abdallah Khedr

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.

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

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

He graduated in 1956 from the Department of Arabic Language, College of Arts, University of Baghdad, with a BA in Arabic language and literature. In 1967, he joined graduate studies at Ain Shams University in Egypt and obtained a master's degree in Andalusian literature for his thesis: "Ibn Shahid Al-Andalusi: His Life and Poetry" under the supervision of Dr. Abdel Qader Al-Qat. He received a doctorate in Andalusian literature from the College of Arts at the University of Baghdad in 1978 for his thesis entitled: “Andalusian Prose in the Age of Sects and Almoravids”, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Salah Khalis.

He worked as a teacher of Arabic and religion in 1956, in a number of Mosul intermediate and secondary schools, the last of which was in the Western Preparatory School until he joined the study at Ain Shams University in order to obtain a master's degree. After completing his postgraduate studies in 1972, he moved to the life of education and research at the University of Mosul in the Department of Arabic Language in the College of Arts to teach Andalusian literature gradually in its scientific ladder until he was promoted to the rank of professor, and remained in university teaching for several years. In 1977, the government institutions at the time, due to his Islamic political activity, expelled him from the university to the Directorate of Education in Mosul, along with political activists such as Prof. Dr. Imad Al-Din Khalil and Prof. Dr. Taha Mohsen. In 1986, he was returned to the University of Mosul and to his faculty, the College of Arts.

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 Governorate since the early seventies of the last century when I was completing my master’s thesis on the Wilayat of Mosul.”

Hazem Abdullah Khader (1932 -1998) is an Iraqi historian and researcher specialized in Andalusian Arabic literature. He has a collection of books that are references in his specialization, and has published a lot of research and studies and supervised master's and doctoral students. He is also considered one of the Islamic preachers from the Muslim Brotherhood School in Iraq.

Khader was born in 1932 in the Iraqi city of Mosul to an Arab Muslim family from the Mawla family. He completed his primary, intermediate and secondary education. He attended the mosques of Mosul since his early youth and belonged to the Muslim Brotherhood in Iraq. He also contacted the group when he was studying for a bachelor's degree at the University of Baghdad, and this allowed Sheikh Muhammad Mahmoud al-Sawaf to contribute to the formation of his personality closely.