Muhammad Bahjat Athari

Muhammad Bahjat Athari bin Mahmoud Effendi bin Abdul Qadir bin Ahmed bin Mahmoud al-Bakri,[2][3] upbringing and birth from Baghdad, his family is well-known in trade and has many properties in Iraq.

His great-grandfather moved from Diyarbakir to Erbil Faqjad. His great-grandfather Ahmed married from a Baghdadiya family from the Qais clan. Zainab, the mother of Muhammad Bahjat Athari, was Turkoman, originally from Kirkuk origin, and his mother learned Turkish, in addition to his mother tongue, Arabic.[4]

One of the finest Iraqi scholars who professed their sciences and literature until their revelations became known, he took the licenses of science, literature and calligraphy from the two signs, Sheikh Mahmoud Shukri Al-Alusi, who died in 1923 AD, and Sheikh Judge Ali Ala Al-Din Al-Alusi, who died in 1921 AD. And he studied at the hands of Baghdad scholars at his time. Among the scholars influenced by the scholar Numan Al-Alusi, who died in 1899 AD.

He excelled in the art of calligraphy on the basis of Nass Comment, and his handwriting was similar to his teacher Mahmoud Shukri Al-Alousi in drawing and tuning. He has written many books for himself and his professor. His writings include the Book of Flags of Iraq, It contains the biographies of the people of Iraq, and it is rare of its kind in casting and forging.

He improved poetry systems and has two huge collections that include noble poems, and he collected a large library that is today one of the largest libraries in Baghdad that contains many scientific and literary manuscripts that have not yet been printed.[6]

His scholarly life was full of many works, as he studied Arabic and excelled in it, as well as in the field of literature and history, the belief was based on the methodology of his sheikh, the professor Mahmoud Shukri Al-Alousi, and he wrote many books up to twenty-five books, including:

• Flags of Iraq

• Outline in the history of Arabic literature

• Muwaffaq in Arab history

• Muhdhab the history of Baghdad mosques and their monuments

• The tragedy of the poet Waddah Al-Yaman

• Recent trends in Islam

• Mahmoud Shukri Al-Alousi: His Life and Linguistic Views

• Cosmic phenomena in the Qur’an

• Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, a proponent of monotheism and renewal in the modern era.

• Director of the Baghdad General Waqf Directorate.[7]

• Head of the scientific complex in Iraq.

• Member of the Arabic Language Academy in Damascus, Jordan, and Cairo.

• King Faisal Prize for Arabic Literature in 1406 AH / 1986 AD

• Saddam Hussein International Prize.

• Muhammad Bahjat  Athari died in 1416 AH / 1996 CE in Baghdad.