Ahmad Wasfi Zakariyya (Arabic: أحمد وصفي زكريا; 1889–1964) was a Syrian historian specializing in the peoples and monuments of Syria and was a leading authority on the country's Arab tribes in the early 20th century. An agricultural engineer by training, he had an extensive career as a director and instructor of modern agriculture in schools throughout Ottoman and French Mandatory Syria, including two years-long terms as the director of the School of Agriculture in Salamiyah. After stints as an educator and adviser on agricultural matters for the governments of North Yemen, Iraq and Transjordan, he became inspector-general of the Ministry of Agriculture in Syria, including after its independence in 1946, retiring in 1950. In the course of his career, he traveled across Syria, cataloging in detail information about the country's tribes and monuments, which he published in several widely-cited works. Source: Wikipedia (en)