Shaikh Ibrahim al-Haidari
Shaikh Ibrahim al-Haidari was an Ottoman historian and anthropologist of the mid-19th century in Ottoman Iraq. He has been cited as "one of the most perspicacious historians of the period". Based in Baghdad, he was the author of a noted regional history of Baghdad, Basra, Kuwait and Najd in 1860, in which he "sought to recreate a regional world, tying southern Iraq to Kuwait, Arabistan/Khuzistan and central Arabia.
