Shakir Mustafa Salim was a famous Iraqi social anthropologist who taught in the Department of Sociology at Baghdad University.

He compiled A Dictionary of Anthropology: English-Arabic (1981).

Marsh Dwellers of the Euphrates Delta

Salim is best known for his groundbreaking ethnographic

Ethnography

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 work, Marsh Dwellers of the Euphrates Delta, submitted as his doctoral thesis in University College, London (1955), first published in Arabic in Baghdad in two volumes (1956-1957), and subsequently published in English as number 23 in the series London School of Economics

London School of Economics

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 Monographs on Social Anthropology (London: Athlone Press, 1962). This was an anthropological report on a year spent among the Marsh Arabs

Marsh Arabs

The Marsh Arabs , also known as the Maʻdān , are inhabitants of the Tigris-Euphrates marshlands in the south and east of Iraq and along the Iranian border....

 of Ech-Chibayish, Iraq

Iraq

Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

, in 1953.