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Dr.. Ahmed Mustafa Abu Hakima is a Palestinian historian born in Abbasiya. Abu Hakima wrote many historical books, the most important of which was the modern history of Kuwait, which was printed in 1984 at the request of the Kuwaiti government.
his life
Abu Hakima studied secondary school in Jerusalem, obtained a BA and MA from Cairo University in the field of history, and a doctorate from the University of London in the field of modern history in 1960.
Dr. Abu Hakima worked in several places, including the Kuwaiti Encyclopedia, the University of Khartoum, Zaria College in Niger, and the University of Jordan (where he had a role in the establishment of the Department of History there) and an expert with UNESCO.
Modern history of Kuwait
After the proposal of the head of the Kuwaiti Department of Education at the time, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, to form a committee to write the history of Kuwait in an academic way, Dr. Abu Hakimah was appointed as a writer due to his previous experience in the history of eastern Arabia. Dr. Abdul Aziz Mansour states in the book: “The author has spent nearly a quarter of a century searching, excavating, and circulating in order to obtain the most reliable references, the most accurate information, the most authentic documents, manuscripts, and photographs so that he can write about the history of Kuwait and the Arabian Gulf.”
Abu Hakimah adopted 1752 as the year in which the emergence of modern Kuwait began. This view has spread widely, but it is the subject of controversy.
His writings
Abu Hakima wrote many books in Arabic and English, the Palestinian Encyclopedia lists some of them:
Political developments in the Kingdom of Morocco, in partnership with Aida Sleiman Aref - Beirut - 1963
How do we understand history - translation: Beirut - 1966
History of Eastern Arabia in Modern Times - Cairo - 1967
History of Kuwait - Kuwait - 1967
The shooting star in the biography of Muhammad Abdel-Wahhab - 1967
Modern History of Kuwait 1750 - 1965 - Kuwait - 1984.
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