Farouk Omar
About “Farouk Omar”:
Farouk Omar Hussein Fawzi al-Anzi is an Iraqi historian, thinker, and Diplomat. He specializes in Islamic studies and Middle Eastern studies. he has contributed articles to major reference works including the Encyclopedia Britannica and the Encyclopedia of Islam. Farouk Omar, whose doctoral thesis on the Abbasid Caliphate was examined by Bernard Lewis and Montgomery Watt, who acknowledged that his research overturned many old Orientalist concepts about the early Abbasid period. He has been recognized in the International Biographical Dictionary (B.I.D) for Distinguished Service to the Community.
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