Abd ar-Razzaq Muhyi ad-Din

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Abd ar-Razzaq Muhyi ad-Din (1910-1983) was considered one of the most important Iraqi poets

Abd ar-Razzaq Muhyi ad-Din ( Arabic عبد الرزاق محيي الدين, DMG ʿAbd ar-Razzaq Muḥyī ad-Dīn ; * 1910 in Najaf , then Ottoman Empire ; † April 27, 1983 in Baghdad , Iraq ) occasionally transcribed as Abdel Razzak Mohieddin or Abdul Razzaq Muhieddin , was an Iraqi literary scholar and pan-Arab politician.

poet

Abd ar-Razzaq Muhyi ad-Din's Shiite ancestors immigrated to Iraq from southern Lebanon in the 18th century. From 1933 he studied the history of the Arabic language, literature and Islamic law at the University of Cairo, for which he received his bachelor's degree in 1937. Back in Iraq he became a teacher and got a job in the Ministry of Education.

From 1944 on he continued his literary studies in Cairo, received his master's degree for a thesis on Abu Hayyan in 1948 and became an assistant professor or lecturer at the Baghdad School of Education. From 1954 back at the University of Cairo, he received his doctorate on Murtadha in 1956 and was then dean of the University of Education in Baghdad.

After the revolution of February 1963, Abd ar-Razzaq Muhyi ad-Din became vice-president of the University of Baghdad and a member of the Iraqi Academy of Sciences, and in 1965 its president. He also became a member of the respective Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo (1966), Damascus (1973) and Amman (1978).

minister

As part of the gradual amalgamation of their states into a new United Arab Republic agreed between the Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and the Iraqi President Abd al-Salam Arif , Abd ar-Razzaq Muhyi ad-Din became the minister responsible for Union affairs in the Iraqi Tahir cabinet in 1964 Yahyas . He retained this ministerial office in the following cabinets, Arif Abd ar-Razzaq and Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz . In addition, since 1964 he was also General Secretary of the United Political Leadership, which was intended as a joint Egyptian-Iraqi interim government .

Abd ar-Razzaq Muhyi ad-Din organized his secretariat's office in Cairo, but the unification project did not get beyond its initial difficulties. After repeated attempts at a Nasserist coup (September 1965, October 1965, July 1966), Arif's death (April 1966) and domestic power struggles in Iraq, he fell victim to a government reshuffle in August 1966 , and the Union Ministry was also abolished or closed in the new Naji Talib cabinet downgraded to a state ministry for (general) Arab unity. The renewed appointment of Abd ar-Razzaq Muhyi ad-Din as Union Minister in a new Tahir Yahya cabinet from May 1967 to April 1968 did not lead to a revival of the project.

  • The coup attempts by the Nassist prime minister ar-Razzaq contributed to the failure of the union project

  • In February 1966, Nasser and al-Bazzaz (left) expressed their satisfaction with the state of the unification process

  • The union project died with Arif in April 1966, even if Muhyi ad-Din was again union minister from 1967-1968

After the Iraqi July Revolution of 1968, Abd ar-Razzaq Muhyi ad-Din stayed away from politics, in 1979 he was recalled as President of the Academy of Sciences. After the now 73-year-old passed out in April 1983 just hours after meeting President Saddam Hussein and died a few days later, his son Zuhair Muhyi ad-Din spread the rumor that Abd ar-Razzaq had been poisoned with thallium .

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personal data
SURNAME Muhyi ad-Din, Abd ar-Razzaq
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muhyiddin, Abdul Razak; Mohieddin, Abdel Razzak; Muhieddin, Abdul Razzaq
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iraqi poet and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Najaf , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1983
Place of death Baghdad , Iraq