Muhammad Bahjat Athari (Arabic: محمد بهجة الأثري) was a Muslim Iraqi linguist, historian and a jurist.
His great-grandfather, Ahmed bin Mahmud al-Bakri, moved from Diyarbakir to Erbil where he was married to a Baghdadi family from the Qays clan.
Zainab, the mother of Muhammad Bahjat Athari, was an Iraqi Turkmen, originally from Kirkuk who was fluent in both Turkish and Arabic languages.
[7] Bahjat served as a member of the Iraqi Academy of Sciences and supervised the editing of its magazine.
[6][9] Bahjat was a master calligrapher, with a unique style similar to Mahmud Shukri al-Alusi.
"[11][better source needed] Among his twenty-five works include:[12] Aside from books, Bahjat also wrote for and contributed to the Lughat Al Arab magazine in the mid-1920s.