Muhammad Khashoggi

Muhammad Khaled Khashoggi (Arabic: محمد خالد خاشقچي) (1889–1978), also spelled as Mohamed Khaled Khashoggi,^[1] was a Saudi medical doctor. He was King Abdulaziz Al Saud's personal physician.^[2]

Mohamed Khashoggi
محمد خالد خاشقچي
Khashoggi presenting an award at a furniture factory in Condas, Beirut, Lebanon, owned by his son Essam Khashoggi
Born	1889 (1889) Medina, Hejaz Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now in Saudi Arabia)
Died	November 16, 1978(1978-11-16) (aged 88–89) Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Alma mater	University of Paris
Occupation	Physician to King Abdulaziz
Spouse(s)	Bashira Mardini Samiha Sitti Khadejah Ismail
Children	14, including Adnan Khashoggi

Personal life

Khashoggi's remote Turkish ancestors made the Hajj from Kayseri to Mecca some four centuries earlier and decided to stay.^[3][4] Their family surname means "spoon maker" (Kaşıkçı) in Turkish.^[1] He married a Saudi woman of Syrian descent,^[5][6] Samiha Ahmed (Setti) and had six children, Adnan Khashoggi, Samira Khashoggi, Essam Khashoggi, Adil Khashoggi, Assia Khashoggi, Ahmad Khashoggi and Soheir Khashoggi. His grandchildren include Dodi Fayed, Jamal Khashoggi, Emad Khashoggi, and Nabila Khashoggi.

Biography

Khashoggi emigrated from Medina along with his family and brother Abdullah Khashoggi, muhtasib official, during the siege of Medina in 1918, settling in Damascus, where he studied medicine and became a surgeon. He went to Paris to study radiation therapy, then to Mecca to open a private clinic.

He moved to Riyadh to work in the Saudi Ministry of Health, where he brought in Egyptian doctors to work in Saudi Arabia. In the 1970s, he went to live in Beirut, Lebanon, but left for London in 1974 at the beginning of the Lebanese Civil War. Eventually he returned to Riyadh, where he died while undergoing surgery. He was buried in Medina.

References

1. Kessler, Ronald (1987), Khashoggi: the rise and fall of the world's richest man, Corgi, p. 41, ISBN 978-0552130608
2. Aburish, Said K. (2013). The Rise, Corruption and Coming Fall of the House of Saud: With an Updated Preface. Bloomsbury. p. 263. ISBN 978-1408834695.
3. Ronald Kessler (31 October 2017). The Richest Man in the World: The Story of Adnan Khashoggi. Grand Central Publishing. p. 29. ISBN 978-1-5387-6254-7.
4. "Who Is Jamal Khashoggi? A Saudi Insider Who Became an Exiled Critic". Bloomberg. October 10, 2018.
5. "Adnan Khashoggi — the man behind the legend". Arab News. 2017-06-08. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
6. "THE WEEK". The Week. Retrieved 2023-12-07.