Muhammad Khaled Khashoggi () (1889–1978), also spelled as Mohamed Khaled Khashoggi, was a Saudi medical doctor. He was King Abdulaziz Al Saud's personal physician.

Personal life

Khashoggi's remote Turkish ancestors made the

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from

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some four centuries earlier and decided to stay. Their family surname means "spoon maker" (''Kaşıkçı'') in Turkish. He married a Saudi woman of

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descent, Samiha Ahmed (Setti), and had six children,

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Samira Khashoggi Samira Khashoggi (, 1935 – March 1986) was a Saudi Arabian progressive author, as well as the founder of ''Al Sharkiah'' magazine. She was the sister of the Saudi businessman Adnan Khashoggi. She was the first wife of Egyptian businessman Moham ...

, Essam Khashoggi, Adil Khashoggi, Assia Khashoggi, Ahmad Khashoggi and Soheir Khashoggi. His grandchildren include

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, and Nabila Khashoggi.

Biography

Khashoggi emigrated from

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along with his family and brother Abdullah Khashoggi,

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official, during the

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in 1918, settling in

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, where he studied medicine and became a surgeon. He went to

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to study

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, then to

to open a private clinic. He moved to

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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

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, but left for

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in 1974 at the beginning of the

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. Eventually he returned to Riyadh, where he died while undergoing surgery. He was buried in Medina.

References

1889 births 1978 deaths Saudi Arabian surgeons Saudi Arabian people of Turkish descent

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20th-century Saudi Arabian medical doctors {{med-bio-stub