| Sayyar Jamil | |
| Native Name: | سيار الجميل |
| Native Name Lang: | ar |
| Birth Place: | Iraq |
| Workplaces: | Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies |
| Alma Mater: | University of St Andrews |
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Sayyar al Jamil (Arabic: سيار الجميل) is a Research Professor at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies in Doha, Qatar.[1] Jamil was born in Iraq in 1952, and lived in Mosul before receiving his PhD at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.[2]
Jamil's website states a number of works which he has published in Arabic, but he is mostly widely known for his work on his contribution of a new theory (known in Arabic as Arabic: المجايلة or "successive generational shifts") of historical development, in which successive generations shape the course of events over roughly periodic cycles of 30 years or (the estimated duration of a single generation).