Sulayman al-Nabulsi
Sulaimān to - Nābulusī (also: Nabulsi ) (* 1908 in as- Salt, Ottoman Empire, today Jordan; † 14 October 1976) was a Jordanian politician and from 1956 to 1957 for six months Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Jordan.
School and attended college at Sulaimān - Nābulusī in Nablus, where he then worked as a teacher. 1930-1934 he studied at the American University of Beirut in Economics and graduated as Bachelor of Arts. For his patriotism he was imprisoned by the British mandatory power in 1936 for one year. He then worked in his family owned soap factory and from 1940 as a bank clerk in Amman.
In the first government of 1946 newly independent Kingdom of Transjordan in 1947, he first Minister of Economics in 1949 but re-arrested for anti- British activities and after his release from December 1950 to July 1951 in the Cabinet Samir ar - Rifa ʿ i again Minister of Economic Affairs. 1953-1954 he was as Jordan's ambassador in London initially deported, but after his return he founded the bourgeois-liberal and left- nationalist forces unifying national Socialist Party. After severe internal political disputes about the foreign policy of Jordan ( question of accession to the Baghdad Pact ) and a mutiny proägyptischer "Free Officers " to Abu Nawwar found on 21 October 1956 performed in the shadow of the Suez Crisis parliamentary elections, from which the National - Socialist Party as strongest grouping emerged.
Based on an alliance with the, also founded in 1954 Arabic Socialist Baath Party and the Communist Party of Jordan Jordan sparked Sulaimān to - Nābulusī on 27 October 1956, the Conservative Cabinet Ibrahim Hashem from and formed a government in which the nationalist Baath politicians Abdallah ar - Rimawi Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister was. Sulaimān to - Nābulusīs uncle Abd al- Halim on - Nimr was interior and defense ministers. The government reached on 14 March 1957, the termination of the Anglo- Jordanian Treaty of Alliance of 1948 and the withdrawal of the last British troops. The decision to establish diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and reject a U.S. credit, led to the resistance of the pro-Western, conservative and Islamist circles at the court. Domestically Sulaimān had on - Nābulusī the insistence of the Communists to clean the old state apparatus, not given, nor contributed to a substantial improvement of the social situation of the popular masses. While Sulaimān to - Nābulusī was based in this power struggle to Egypt and Syria, the young King Hussein backing found in Saudi Arabia, the UK and the USA. So Sulaimān was forced to - Nābulusīs government already on 13 April 1957 by King to resign are just as on April 15, the transitional government of his successor, Abd al - Halim on - Nimr. In the reign of on - Nimrs successor Hussein Khalidi Sulaimān to - Nābulusī was still foreign minister, but also that government was finally deposed on 24 April 1957. The new prime minister was re- Ibrahim Hashem.
After an attempted coup Sulaimān to - Nābulusī and Abdallah al- Rimawi of related officers to Abu Nawwar the ex - Premier 1961-1962 was re-arrested. His attempt in 1968 to form a renewed opposition alliance, including the Palestinians failed, at least in the civil war from 1970 /71. During the October War 1973 - Nābulusī sharply criticized the reluctance of the king.