Muhammad Khashoggi
{{Short description|Saudi Arabian physician (1889–1978)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Mohamed Khashoggi
| native_name = محمد خالد خاشقچي
| native_name_lang = ar
| image = MKhashoggi.jpg
| caption = Khashoggi presenting an award at a furniture factory in Condas, Beirut, Lebanon, owned by his son Essam Khashoggi
| birth_date = {{birth year|1889}}
| birth_place = Medina, Hejaz Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now in Saudi Arabia)
| death_date = {{death date and age|1978|11|16|1889}}
| death_place = Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
| alma_mater = University of Paris
| occupation = Physician to King Abdulaziz
| spouse = Bashira Mardini
Samiha Sitti
Khadejah Ismail
| children = 14, including Adnan, Samira and Soheir
}}
Muhammad Khaled Khashoggi ({{langx|ar|محمد خالد خاشقچي}}) (1889–1978), also spelled as Mohamed Khaled Khashoggi,{{citation|last=Kessler|first=Ronald|year=1987|title=Khashoggi: the rise and fall of the world's richest man|publisher=Corgi|isbn=978-0552130608|page=41}} was a Saudi medical doctor. He was King Abdulaziz Al Saud's personal physician.{{cite book|last=Aburish|first=Said K.|title=The Rise, Corruption and Coming Fall of the House of Saud: With an Updated Preface|year=2013|publisher=Bloomsbury|isbn=978-1408834695|page=263}}
Personal life
Khashoggi's remote Turkish ancestors made the Hajj from Kayseri to Mecca some four centuries earlier and decided to stay.{{cite book|author=Ronald Kessler|title=The Richest Man in the World: The Story of Adnan Khashoggi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Iw2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT29|date=31 October 2017|publisher=Grand Central Publishing|isbn=978-1-5387-6254-7|page=29}}{{cite news |title=Who Is Jamal Khashoggi? A Saudi Insider Who Became an Exiled Critic |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-10/jamal-khashoggi-s-shift-from-insider-to-exiled-critic-quicktake |work=Bloomberg |date=October 10, 2018}} Their family surname means "spoon maker" (Kaşıkçı) in Turkish. He married a Saudi woman of Syrian descent,{{Cite web |date=2017-06-08 |title=Adnan Khashoggi — the man behind the legend |url=https://www.arabnews.com/node/1112196 |access-date=2023-12-07 |website=Arab News |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=THE WEEK |url=https://www.theweek.in/ |access-date=2023-12-07 |website=The Week |language=en}} 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.
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