Sayyar Jamil

Sayyar al Jamil (Arabic: سيار الجميل) is a Research Professor at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies in Doha, Qatar[1]. Jamil was born in Iraq in 1952, and lived in Mosul before receiving his PhD at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.[2]

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 Arabic: المجايلة 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).

Official Website

References

  1. http://www.sayyaraljamil.com/English/ Official Website
  2. http://www.sayyaraljamil.com/Arabic/viewarticle.php?id=CV_and_Photos-20130124-2023


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