The Center for the Revival of Arab Scientific Heritage has organized a workshop entitled “The late Iraqi historian, editor and scholar Prof. Dr. Imad Abd al-Salam Rauf”, who was born in Baghdad in 1367 Ah/1948, from a family of Mosuli origin, of Abbasid descent, where he received his primary education there and grew up in the locality of Saadoun and then moved with his family to Raghiba Khatoun that is a neighborhood of Baghdad.
The lecturer stated that Dr. Imad Abd al-Salam studied and graduated from the department of history at the college of arts, University of Baghdad in 1970 and then continued his higher studies at Cairo University in Egypt and received his master’s degree in modern history in 1973 about the (Mosul province in the Galilee era 1749-1834). He then received his doctorate degree in 1976 from the same university for his thesis on (The social life in Iraq during the Mamluk era 1750-1831) and was appointed as dean of the Center for the Revival of Arab Scientific Heritage at the University of Baghdad and as a professor of modern history at the College of Education for Humanities (Ibn Rushd). He also supervised many master and doctoral students in Islamic history, besides his efforts in the field of investigation and authorship.