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Akram Al-Olabi is a Syrian Historian, born in Al_Qaymariyya neighborhood in Damascus on the 2nd of January in 1940.

Life and Education
He obtained his secondary certificate in 1960. He joined the Faculty of Arts, Department of History, and graduated from it in 1964. He worked as a history teacher at Al-Hasakah and Damascus high schools. He obtained a diploma from the Institute of Arab Research and Studies, Department of Historical and Geographical Studies and Research in Cairo in 1969. Then Mr. Al- Olabi got a master’s degree from the Aforementioned institute in 1978 with a grade of excellent and the subject of his thesis (Damascus Prosecution at the end of the Mamluk era, the era of Sibay). After getting his master degree, he worked in Saudi Arabia directing the subject of social studies.

He returned to Syria and devoted himself to studying history and reading books. He was known by the pioneers of the Al-Assad National Librar, the Dhahirah Library and the Historical Documents Center. Through those libraries, he was able to deal with the manuscript, book and document and translate the rare ones.

Member of the Higher Scientific Academy for Arab and Islamic Sciences in Damascus. He holds a degree in Quranic sciences in 1990, approved by Dr. Muhammad Abdul Latif Saleh Al-Farfour.

The researcher has published 22 books, the first of which was in 1982, after which books and research followed between authorship and investigation