Imad Abd al-Salam Raouf al-Attar was born in Baghdad in 1948, from a family of Mosuli origin, of Abbasid descent, and received his primary education there.

[1][circular reference] He grew up in the locality of Al-Saadoun, then he moved with people to a modern house in the Raghbet Khatoun area.

Then he continued his higher studies at Cairo University and obtained a master's degree in modern history in 1973, for his thesis (The State of Mosul in the Galilee Era 1749–1834).

He published dozens of research papers in many journals Scientific, academic and court, including: Sumer (Baghdad) Arab Historian (Baghdad) Al-Mawrid (Baghdad) Journal of the Iraqi International Council (Baghdad) Rafidain Literature (Mosul) Contemporary Muslim (Cairo) Islamic Knowledge (Malaysia) Renewal (Malaysia) Science and Faith (Khartoum) Umm Al-Qura University Journal (Mecca) Al-Mutar (Morocco) Al-Insan (Paris) Islamic Studies (Pakistan) Journal of Islamic History (India) Perspectives on Culture and Heritage (United Arab Emirates) Yearbook of the College of Sharia, Law and Islamic Studies (Doha) Al-Afaaq (Oman) Publishing hundreds of articles, cultural research and historical works (study theorizing, criticism and creativity) in nearly seventy Arab and Islamic magazines and newspapers.

[5] Imad Abdul Salam Raouf died in the city of Erbil, on June 27, 2021, at the age of 73, most of whom spent in the service of science, history, heritage and Arabic Islamic manuscripts.