Haqqi al-Azm

Haqqi Bey al -Azm (Arabic حقي العظم Haqi al-' Azm, * 1864 in Damascus, Ottoman Empire, † 1955 ) was a Syrian politician and Ottoman. He also served as Prime Minister and Interior Minister.

Life

The Sunni came from the al - Azm family and received his education at the Ottoman Military Academy in Istanbul. Already in the Ottoman Empire, he was active in government, advocated for federalism and advocated an independence of the Arab territories. He was co-founder of the Ottoman Party for Administrative Decentralization.

After the First World War and the beginning of the mandate French rule in Syria Haqqi Bey first 1921 first governor of the State of Damascus was. On June 7, 1932 after the election of Mohamed Ali al - Abed as President, he was appointed prime minister and asked to form a government. However, earned his rule, which lasted until March 16, 1934 a lot of criticism from the opposition National block.

Bibliography

  • Philip S. Khoury, Urban Notables and Arab Nationalism: The Politics of Damascus 1860-1920. Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-521-53323-6 ( online at Google Books).
  • Eliezer Tauber: The formation of modern Syria and Iraq. Routledge, 1995, ISBN 0-7146-4557-5 ( online at Google Books).
  • Michael Dumper, Bruce E. Stanley: Cities of the Middle East and North Africa: a historical encyclopedia. ABC -CLIO, 2007, ISBN 1-57607-919-8 ( online at Google Books).
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