Fuad G. Baali

Background

Fuad was born on February 12, 1930 in Baghdad, Iraq.

Education

Fuad finished the University of Baghdad with a Bachelor of Arts. He studied at Louisiana State University and received his Ph.D. in 1960.

Career

Fuad was a former faculty member at Middle Tennessee State College (now University), Murfreesboro. He also worked at the University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq. He was a professor of urban and rural sociology at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green from 1968.

His first writing was Relation of the People to the Land in Southern Iraq, published in 1966. Then he worked with Clifton D. Bryant under Introductory Sociology: Selected Readings for the College Scene, that was published in 1970. In the same years, he and Joseph S. Vandiver prepared Urban Sociology: Contemporary Readings. He also was a translator and author of preface for lbn Khcddun’s Science of Human Culture.

Achievements

• Fuad G. Baali is a well-known American writer. He also has been a professor at the University of Baghdad, the University of Florida, Western Kentucky University and many other institutions. His most famous writings are Relation of the People to the Land in Southern Iraq, Urban Sociology: Contemporary Readings, lbn Khaldun and Islamic Thought- Styles: A Social Perspective and others.

Works

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  • Arab Unity and Disunity: Past and Present

    (Arab Unity and Disunity emphasizes the significance of th...)

    2004
  • Ibn Khaldun and Islamic thought-styles, a social perspective 1981
  • Society, State, and Urbanism: Ibn Khaldun's Sociological Thought 1988
  • The Science of Human Social Organization: Conflicting Views of Ibn Khaldun's 1332-1406 Ilm Al-umran 2005

Connections

coworker:

Clifton D. Bryantt

coworker:

Joseph S. Vandiver

coworker:

John P. Reed

coworker:

Ali Wardi

References

• Contemporary Authors, Vol. 184
  2000