Mohieddin Fikini

Muhi ad-Din Fikini (Arabic محي الدين فكيني, DMG muhi ad - Dīn Fikīnī; * March 1925 Fezzan, † 1994) was in the years 1963 and 1964 Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Libya.

Fikini comes from the Clan Rajban from the mountain Jabal Nafusa region in northwestern Libya. His father, Mohammed ben Khalifa Fikini, participated from 1911 in the resistance against the occupation of Libya by Italy. With the collapse of the resistance movement in 1923, he fled with his family in the Fezzan region, where 1925 Muhi ad-Din was born. 1929, the family had after the invasion of Italian troops in Fezzan again flee and eventually settled in Tunisia Gabes. After the death of his father in 1950 the family returned to Tripoli in 1953. Muhi ad-Din studied at this time law at the University of Paris and received his doctorate in 1953.

From 1953-56 was Fikini Libyan ambassador in Egypt. From 1958 he was the Libyan ambassador to the United Nations and the United States.

On March 19, 1963 King Idris I. appointed Fikini the next prime minister and asked him to form a cabinet. Just nine months later, on 22 January 1963, however, he was forced to resign as a result of riots in Benghazi.