Haqqi al-Azm

Haqqi Bey al-Azm

Haqqi Bey al-Azm ( Arabic حقي العظم Ḥaqqī al-'Aẓm ; * 1864 in Damascus , Ottoman Empire ; † 1955 ibid) was a Syrian and Ottoman politician. He was the first Prime Minister of Syria and served, among other things, as Minister of the Interior.

Life

The Sunni came from the al-Azm family and received his education at the Ottoman Military Academy in Istanbul . He was already a member of the government in the Ottoman Empire, advocated federalism and advocated independence for the Arab regions. He was a co-founder of the "Ottoman Society for Administrative Decentralization". From February 1907, this party published its own magazine with the title “The Ottoman Consultation” (aš-šūrā al-ʿUṯmānīya) , the Turkish part of which Haqqi Bey edited, while his cousin Rafīq Bey was responsible for the Arabic part.

After various Arab notables were hanged for treason by the Ottoman authorities in Syria during the First World War in January 1915, Haqqi Bey and Rafiq Bey helped to distribute a leaflet in Syria calling on the population to cooperate with the British and containing further instructions. After the beginning of the mandate rule of France , Haqqi Bey first became the first governor of the state of Damascus in 1921 . On June 7, 1932, after Mohamed Ali al-Abed was elected President, he was appointed Prime Minister and charged with forming a government. However, his rule, which lasted until March 16, 1934, received much criticism from the opposition National Bloc .

literature

• Philip S. Khoury: Urban Notables and Arab Nationalism: The Politics of Damascus 1860–1920 . Cambridge University Press , 2003, ISBN 0-521-53323-6 ( online in Google Book Search).
• Eliezer Tauber: The formation of modern Syria and Iraq . Routledge , 1995, ISBN 0-7146-4557-5 ( online in Google book search).
• 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 in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sami Moubayed: Haqqi al-Azm (1864–1955), the first Prime Minister in republican Syria, in July 1932. ( Photo )
2. ^ Philip S. Khoury: Urban Notables and Arab Nationalism: The Politics of Damascus 1860-1920 . Cambridge 2003, p. 69.
3. ↑ Eliezer Tauber: The Formation of Modern Syria and Iraq . Ilford 1995, p. 170.
4. ↑ Sanderson Beck: Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan 1516–1950