{"id":46486,"date":"2025-10-21T18:40:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/?p=46486"},"modified":"2025-10-21T18:40:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:40:43","slug":"the-critical-role-of-biographical-literature-in-contemporary-scholarship-a-symposium-at-the-college-of-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/2025\/10\/21\/the-critical-role-of-biographical-literature-in-contemporary-scholarship-a-symposium-at-the-college-of-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Critical Role of Biographical Literature in Contemporary Scholarship: A Symposium at the College of Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of History at the College of Arts, University of Mosul, organized a scholarly symposium on Sunday, September 21, 2025, titled &#8220;Biographical Books, Their Importance in Contemporary Studies, and Methods of Their Sustained Utilization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The event took place in the College&#8217;s Al-Salam Hall, under the supervision of the Dean of the College, Professor Dr. Hatem Fahd Hano Al-Tai, and the Head of the History Department, Professor Dr. Mahmoud Saleh Saeed.<\/p>\n<p>A number of faculty members from the department contributed papers to the symposium, including: Dr. Nasser Abdul Razzaq, Dr. Abdul Qadir Ahmed, Dr. Muhammad Abdullah, Dr. Muhammad Ali Weis, Dr. Hana Salem, and Dr. Rana Salem. The session was chaired by Dr. Hashim Abdul Razzaq.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium aimed to highlight the academic value of biographical literature (<i>Kutub Al-Tarajim<\/i>) as essential primary sources for re-reading history and employing them in contemporary studies, alongside discussing modern methods for their analysis and application.<\/p>\n<p>The event concluded with a fruitful scholarly dialogue that emphasized the importance of sustaining research efforts in the field of specialized historical studies.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignnone size-medium wp-image-46488\" src=\"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/10\/568412855_1142380434671765_4426583965920987229_n-300x200.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/10\/568412855_1142380434671765_4426583965920987229_n-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" 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College&#8217;s Al-Salam Hall, under the supervision of the Dean of the College, Professor Dr. Hatem Fahd Hano Al-Tai, and the Head of the History Department, Professor Dr. Mahmoud Saleh Saeed. A number of faculty members from the department contributed papers to the symposium, including: Dr. Nasser Abdul Razzaq, Dr. Abdul Qadir Ahmed, Dr. Muhammad Abdullah, Dr. Muhammad Ali Weis, Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/2025\/10\/21\/the-critical-role-of-biographical-literature-in-contemporary-scholarship-a-symposium-at-the-college-of-arts\/\"> [Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":46487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-symposium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46493,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46486\/revisions\/46493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uomosul.edu.iq\/en\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}