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
1889
November 16, 1978 (aged 88–89)
Physician to King Abdulaziz
Bashira Mardini
Samiha Sitti
Khadejah Ismail
14, including Adnan Khashoggi
Personal life[edit]
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[edit]
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.