Sayyar Jamil

Iraqi scholar (1952)

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Sayyar Jamil
سيار الجميل
Born	1952 (age 71–72) Iraq
Alma mater	University of St Andrews
Scientific career
Institutions	Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies

Website	www.sayyaraljamil.com/English

Sayyar al Jamil (Arabic: سيار الجميل) is a Research Professor at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies in Doha, Qatar.^[1] Jamil was born in Iraq in 1952, and lived in Mosul before receiving his PhD at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.^[2]

Writings on generational throughout Arab history

Jamil's website states a number of works which he has published in Arabic, but he is mostly widely known for his work on his contribution of a new theory (known in Arabic as Arabic: المجايلة or "successive generational shifts") of historical development, in which successive generations shape the course of events over roughly periodic cycles of 30 years or (the estimated duration of a single generation).

References

^ "Home Dr. Sayyar al-Jamil". Sayyaraljamil.com. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
^ "مختصر السيرة العلمية للدكتور سيّار الجميل موقع الدكتور سيار الجميل". Sayyaraljamil.com. Retrieved 29 November 2017.