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- Title
THE ROLE OF <sup>C</sup>ABDALMUḤSIN AS-SA<sup>c</sup>DŪN IN IRAQI POLITICS IN THE 1920s.
- Authors
SORBY Jr., Karol
- Abstract
cAbdalmuḥsin ibn Fahd, a scion of the family Āl Sacdūn, was bom in 1879 in an-Nāşirīya in southern Iraq. Āl Sacdūn had been a notable sunm family of wealthy landowners and sayyids which ruled the great Muntafiq confederation of tribes on the lower Euphrates. His father had close ties in the Ottoman court so his son studied in Istanbul and got his commission in the Ottoman army. After the war he returned to Iraq in November 1921 and in March 1922 entered the second cabinet of as-Sacid cAbdarraḥmān al-Kaylānī. Appointed to cabinet positions at the behest of the British, cAbdalmuḥsin as-Sacdān soon emerged as a strongman willing to take action against the shīcīculama' and the tribal leaders, against the wishes of a king who was aware of them. During his political career he served as prime minister four times. Although initially encouraged by the British initiative in 1929, cAbdalmuhsin as-Sacdān had little success in either advancing the cause of the revised treaty or in winning the confidence of the king. Disillusionment and political helplessness compounded by personal problems, led to his suicide in November 1929. It is worth mentioning that his statue decorates one of the main streets in Baghdad"Shāriat as-Sacdūn".
- Subjects
IRAQI politics &; government, 1921-1958; BRITISH foreign relations; IRAQI foreign relations; STATE formation -- History; SUICIDE; HISTORY; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Asian & African Studies (13351257), 2015, Vol 24, Issue 1, p102
- ISSN
1335-1257
- Publication type
Article