College of Education for Humanities

Master’s thesis in the College of Education for Human Sciences oAn ((Historical Geography of the East in the book Nukhbat Al_Dahr Fi  Ajayeb Albar Walbahr by Sheikh Al-Rabwah (d. 727 AH / 1327 AD))

 The College of Education for Human Sciences at the University of Mosul discussed a master’s thesis on ((Historical Geography of the East in the book Nukhbat Al_Dahr Fi  Ajayeb Albar Walbahr by Sheikh Al-Rabwah (d. 727 AH / 1327 AD))

On Tuesday 15/8/2023, part of it was attended by Professor Dr. Hazem Thanoun Ismail Al-Sabawi, Dean of the College and Head of the Department, Dr. Hamid Muhammad Taha Al-Suwaidani, and a number of the college’s teachers.

The thesis presented by the student (Muhammad Samir Younes Mubarak Al-Maathidi) in the History Department dealt with a geographical study of a number of countries in the East, in addition to the Indian Sea and the China Sea and their islands, as well as a study of the social conditions and administrative divisions of those regions.

The study dealt with the scientific and life life of Sheikh Al-Rabwah and the knowledge of the sources and methodology of the book Elite of Time in the Wonders of Land and Sea, as well as the monologues and a number of drawbacks.

The study aims to show how Sheikh Al-Rabwa dealt with the countries of India, Sindh and China, their seas and islands, and compared them with other sources.

The discussion committee was chaired by: Prof. Dr. Ahmed Ismail Abdullah,

and membership of both Assistant Professor Dr. Shaima Younes Ismail – and Assistant Professor Dr. Shamkhi Yaber Awaid

Membership and supervision of Professor Dr. Sufyan Yassin Ibrahim.