Muhammad Sa'id al-Qaddal

Muhammad Said al-Qaddal was born in 1935 in Sinkat, eastern Sudan,[3] where he was taught the Quran.[4] His father, Sheikh al-Qaddal, was seconded to work in Hadhramaut, Yemen,[5] therefore, al-Qaddal and his family moved there, and it is where he studied middle school.[6]

al-Qaddal studied at:

• Khartoum State primary schools.
• Faculty of Arts, University of Khartoum, 1958.[7]
• Master's degree at University of California.[7]
• Ph.D. in Modern History of Sudan from University of Khartoum.[3]

• History Assistant Inspector, Ministry of Education: 1966–1969[8]
• Head of the Department of History, Higher Teachers' Institute: 1970–1972[8]
• Lecturer: Department of History, University of Khartoum: 1982–1986[3]
• Associate Lecturer, University of Khartoum: 1987–1992
• Associate Lecturer, University of Aden: 1993–2000
• Associate Lecturer, University of Khartoum: 2000–2003
• Professor, University of Khartoum: 2004

• World Conference on History of Mahdist War, University of Khartoum: 1981
• Postgraduate Studies of Arab Universities, University of Khartoum: 1982
• Hundred Years after the Berlin Conference 1884, Makerere University, Uganda: 1984
• Rewriting Arab History, Union of Arab Historians, Baghdad: 1984
• Social-Change in Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe: 1986
• Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage, University of Aden: 1992
• Egyptian-Sudanese Relations, Cairo: 1997
• Western-Arab Relations, Philadelphia University, Jordan: 2003
• Development of Faculty of Arts’ Curriculum, Hodeidah University, Yemen: 2004
• The Hadhrami Migration to Southeast Asia, Kuala Lumpur: 2005

• Education during the National Democratic Revolution Phase: 1970[3]
• The Mahdist State and Abyssinia (original: al-Mahdiyah wa-al-Habashah): 1973[9][10]
• Sudanese Communist Party and the 1969 Sudanese coup d'état: 1985[3]
• Imam al-Mahdi: A Painting of a Sudanese Rebel (original: al-Imam al-Mahdi: Lawha li-tha`ir sudani): 1986[11][12]
• The Economic Policy of the Mahdist State: 1987[13][14]
• Islam and Politics in Sudan (original: Al-Islam wa-al-siyasiyyah fi al-Sudan) (book): 1992[3][10]
• Belonging and Alienation: Studies in the History of Sudan: 1992[3]
• History of Modern Sudan (original: Ta'rikh al-Sudan al-hadith): 1993[10][15][16]
• Sheikh al-Qaddal Pasha: A Sudanese Teacher in Hadhramaut (original: Al-Shaykh al-Qaddal Basha): 1997[3][10]
• Sultan Ali Bin Salah al-Qu'aiti: Half a Century of Political Struggle in Hadhramaut: 1998[2][17]
• Cooper: Memoirs of a Political Detainee in Sudan Prisons: 1997[3][18]
• Milestones in the History of the Sudanese Communist Party: 1999[3]
• Guide to the Modern History of Europe: From the Renaissance Period to World War II: 2000[3]
• Guide to Writing University Research: 2000[3]
• Sheikh Mustafa al-Amin: A Journey of a Lifetime from Abyssinia to Hamburg: 2003[3]

On January 6, 2008, at the age of 73, al-Qaddal died following a health emergency in Khartoum, Sudan, and was buried there.[7]