24 Facts About Nuri Ja'far

Nuri Ja'far Ali al-Chalabi, better known as Nuri Ja'far, was an Iraqi psychologist, philosopher of education, and author.

Nuri Ja'far wrote more than fifty works on pedagogy, psychology, history, philosophy, thought and literature.

Nuri Ja'far was a student of John Dewey and majored in neuropsychology.

Nuri Ja'far, referring to his mother, stated that "she was calm, very tolerant, and read the Qur'an, and that was in the 1920s".

Nuri Ja'far looked and found me holding the Qur'an upside down.

Nuri Ja'far encouraged me, and enrolled me in the second grade.

In school, Nuri Ja'far got interested in mathematics, the Arabic language and history.

Nuri Ja'far then worked as an educational inspector from October 1942 until August 1943 in Karbala and Basra.

Nuri Ja'far resigned from the Ministry of Education and was off-duty from 25 October 1943 to 10 January 1950.

Nuri Ja'far continued his higher education, held the baccalaureate degree and his papers and went to the capital, Baghdad, to the College of Medicine to fulfil his childhood dream, but was denied admission due to financial conditions.

Nuri Ja'far replied "Neither I nor my father saw these 5 dinars [in our life]".

Nuri Ja'far graduated from the Higher Teachers' House, which later became the University of Baghdad.

Nuri Ja'far had personal relations with him while Dewey was retired and not his doctoral advisor, he was personally associated with him.

Nuri Ja'far used to stay with him at home and discussing with him.

Nuri Ja'far stayed with Dewey in his apartment in New York for a whole month, reading and memorizing his works, and at the time he was an Iraqi prominent scholarship student to the US.

Nuri Ja'far received a master's degree from Ohio University in 1948, and a doctorate in philosophy from the same university in 1949.

Nuri Ja'far once tried to enter the Iraqi parliament but in what is believed to be an electoral fraud of the June 1954 Iraqi parliamentary election under government of Nuri al-Said, the results of the victory of more than 11 seats for the leftist and democrats were annulled.

Nuri Ja'far continued his protest and criticism, filled the pages with newspapers about the fraud scandal and canceling the elections until he was summoned by the then Prime Minister Arshad al-Umari, and a convulsive dialogue took place between them.

Nuri Ja'far was dismissed from his academic career in Iraq after the November 1963 coup d'etat.

Nuri Ja'far's name was in newly-government list of more than 100 professors in various scientific and humanistic disciplines, arranged by their political views, along with other academics, such as Mahdi Makhzumi, Ali Jawad Al-Taher, Abdul-Jabbar Abdullah and others.

Nur Nuri Ja'far married later in life to a woman who was 20 years younger than him who came from an upper-class family and died in 1975 in the UK.

Nur Nuri Ja'far once described himself "I am the head of a family, a father, a mother, a friend and a loyal guard".

Nuri Ja'far enlisted his life and sacrificed the rest of his life for his knowledge and for us, as he used to repeat to our ears: Your mother left you as a trust.

Nuri Ja'far wrote more than 50 books in Arabic and English, including:.