Asst. Prof. Dr. Hussein Obeid Hamad Khalaf

• Teaching Prophetic Biography – Graduate Studies, Department of History
  Teaching the Prophetic biography with emphasis on authenticating it and purifying it from fabricated narrations.
• Teaching Islamic Thought – Graduate Studies, Department of History
  Teaching Islamic thought to equip students with intellectual resilience against ideas foreign to society.
• Teaching Research Methodology – Graduate Studies, Department of History
  Enabling students to conduct research in accordance with historical scientific research methods.
• Teaching Islamic Principalities and Emirates – Undergraduate Studies, Department of History
  Familiarizing students with the circumstances and conditions that allowed the establishment of independent principalities and emirates within the Islamic state throughout Islamic history.
• Teaching Islamic Systems – Undergraduate Studies, Department of Hadith and its Sciences, College of Islamic Sciences
  Introducing students to the systems and laws adopted by Islamic civilization in state governance.

• Bachelor’s Degree in History – University of Tikrit, 1998
• Master’s Degree in Islamic History – University of Tikrit, 2010
• Ph.D. in Islamic History (Prophetic Biography) – University of Tikrit, 2014

Head of the Department of Comparative Religions – College of Islamic Sciences, University of Tikrit
From June 24, 2020, to September 15, 2022

Course: Prophetic Biography 

Rasha Khamis Hassan – 2021 – Hadiths in the Sahihayn: A Chronological Study According to the Prophetic Biography (Meccan Period).Raghad Fawzi Matar – 2021 – The Personal Life of the Prophet ﷺ through Ibn Sa‘d’s “al-Tabaqat” (d. 230 AH): A Comparative Study with the Nine Books.Hind Mahmoud Eidane – 2022 – The Questions of Imam Waki‘ ibn al-Jarrah (d. 197 AH): Compilation and Study.Hashim Sabah Suleiman – 2023 – The Letters of the Jurist Al-Hasan Al-Basri to Caliph Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz (99–101 AH): A Historical Study.Salwa Abdul Ibrahim – 2024 – ‘Umari Opinions between Qur’anic Concord and Prophetic Decisions and Their Historical Impact.

• Al-Arba‘un al-Hadith al-Suyutiya – Published
• Chronological Timings in the Prophetic Biography – Forthcoming
• Agreement and Disagreement between Hadith Scholars and Historians in the Narrations of the Prophetic Biography – Forthcoming
• The Questions of Imam Waki‘ ibn al-Jarrah – Forthcoming