Ahmed Matlub

Ahmed Matlub
Native name	أحمد مطلوب
Born	25 October 1936 Iraq, Tikrit
21 July 201821 July 2018
🏳️ Nationality	Iraq
🏫 Education	Bachelor's degree in Arabic language Master's degree in rhetoric and criticism Doctorate in rhetoric and criticism
🎓 Alma mater	College of Arts and Sciences in Baghdad Cairo University
💼 Occupation
Title	Professor Minister of Culture and Guidance in Iraq
🏅 Awards	King Faisal International Prize in the Arabic Language and Literature

Ahmad Matlub (Arabic: أحمد مطلوب) (October 25, 1936 – July 21, 2018) was a Professor of Rhetoric and Criticism, head of the Iraqi Scientific Academy. In 1967 he was the Minister of Culture and Guidance in Iraq.

Education

He studied elementary and middle school in Tikrit (1941-1950), then he studied high school in Karbala and completed his high school in Al-Karkh in Baghdad. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Arabic language from the College of Arts and Sciences in Baghdad (Arabic Language Department) with a grade of excellent in 1956, and he was the first in all departments of the college. He then obtained a Master's degree in rhetoric and criticism with a very good degree from Cairo University in 1961. Then a doctorate in rhetoric and criticism with first honors from Cairo University in 1963.

Career

• He worked as a teacher in Kirkuk High School in 1957
• He moved to work as a teacher in “Al-Tijara middle school” in Baghdad 1957-57.
• He worked as a teaching assistant at the College of Arts at the University of Baghdad since 1958, then as an assistant professor, then an associate professor, then a professor.
• He became Director General of Press and Guidance in the Ministry of Culture and Guidance in 1964
• He worked as Director General of Culture in the same ministry in 1964
• He worked as the head of the media department at the University of Baghdad from 1966-1969.
• In 1967 Dr. Ahmed Matlub became the Minister of Culture and Guidance in Iraq. Then he joined Kuwait University as an Associate Professor from 1971 - 1978. He worked as a visiting professor at the Institute for Arab Research and Studies in Cairo, Martin Luther University in Germany, and the University of Oran in Algeria.
• He became dean of the College of Arts at the University of Baghdad from 1984 to 1986
• He became Secretary General of the High Commission for the care of the Arabic Language in Iraq from 1986 until 2003
• In 2007 he held the position of President of the Iraqi Scientific Academy, which is considered the highest scientific organization in Iraq He became a member of the Jordanian Arabic Language Academy in addition to the Jordanian Scientific Academy.

Awards

He won the King Faisal International Prize in the Arabic Language and Literature Branch at a ceremony held in Riyadh, he was equally awarded the prize with Professor Muhammad Rashad Hamzawi from Tunisia, who was previously a Professor of Arabic Language and Head of the Arabic Language Department at the College of Arts at Sultan Qaboos University in 1428 AH.

Works

He published 37 books about rhetoric, criticism, literature, dictionaries and Arabization. He published 15 edited books of heritage in poetry and rhetoric of the Holy Qur’an. He published more than 60 scientific papers in the field of linguistics, criticism, language, the sciences of the Qur’an, interpretation, Hadith, Arabization of sciences and scientific terminology. Such as:

• "Rhetorical styles: eloquence - rhetoric - meanings". 1981
• "Sculpture in the Arabic Language: A Study and Dictionary".
• "Arabic numerals". 1983
• "Glossary of Arab criticism terms."
• "Lexicon of clothes in the tongue of the Arabs."
• "Glossary of rhetorical terms and their development."
• "Diwan Dik al-Gin Al-Homsi. In association with: Abdullah Al-Jyouri."
• "Masterpiece Arib, including in the Qur’an from the strange." (original text: tuhfat alaryb bima fi alquran min algharib )
• "Lexicon ratio in the letters "alf" and "non"." (original text: maejim alnisbat bial'alf walnuwn.)
• "Abd al-Qaher Al-Jurjani."
• "Rhetorical research among the Arabs. 1982 (published in The Small Encyclopedia, Issue: 116)".
• "Arabic Rhetoric: Meanings, Explanation, and the study (the art, the science) of metaphors and stylistics." (original text: albalagha alearabia : almaeani walbayan walbadie.) 1980
• "Rhetoric from Al-Jahiz." 1981
• "Rhetoric and application." 1982
• "Al-Qazwini and Summarized Explanations" 1980
• "My life mate, University of Diyala Press", (original text: rafiqat eumri) 2015.
• "In the wide pen (A Book in Several Parts)", (original text:fi rahab alqalam) its sixth volume was published in 2020 .

Articles

He published hundreds of articles, including:

• "Rhetoric for al-Sakaki", 1960 his university thesis
• "Al-Amdi in light of his balance", (original text: al'amdi fi daw' muazanatih)1972
• "Basra in Al-Jahiz's Heritage", 1982
• "Al-Jurjani in Light of his Mediation", (original text: aljurjani fi daw' wasatatih)1973
• "Al-Khatib Al-Qazwini: His Efforts and Impact on Arabic Rhetoric". (original text: alkhatib alqzwyny: juhuduh wa'athruh fi albalagha alarabia)1963
• "Arabic language and civilization." (Research). 1997
• See also Full Collection Index by Dr. Ahmed Matlub, Islam Online.

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