Khalid an-Naqschbandi

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Iraqi Sovereignty Council 1958:
ar-Rubai'i (left), Kubba (center) and
an-Naqschbandi (right)
Iraq's leadership after the 1958 revolution: u. a. an-Naqschbandi (first row, seated middle left), Qasim (second row, middle), ar-Rubai'i (second row, fifth from left)

Khalid an-Naqschbandi (* 1916 in Amadiya , then still the Ottoman Empire ; † November 27, 1961 in Baghdad , Iraq ) was a Kurdish politician in Iraq. He came from a religious landowning family from Erbil in northern Iraq. First he served as an officer in the royal Iraqi army, in the kingdom of Iraq he was governor of Arbil until the revolution of July 14, 1958 .

After the abolition of the monarchy was an-Naqshbandi in that of Abd al-Karim Qasim established Republic in 1958 a member of the Sovereignty Council (Sovereignty Council). This three-member council functioned as the collective head of state (State Council), but had only representative or ceremonial tasks. Each of the three councilors represented one of Iraq's three major ethnic groups: an-Naqshandi the Sunni Kurds, Muhammad Najib ar-Rubai'i the Sunni Arabs, and Muhammad Mahdi Kubba the Shiite Arabs. As deputy of the chairman ar-Rubai'i, an-Naqschbandi was de facto deputy head of state of Iraq and thus the first Kurd in this position.

Although the Iraqi government wanted Naqshbandi's appeal to be understood as a benevolent gesture towards the Kurds, the relationship between Prime Minister Qasim and Kurdish leader Mustafa Barzani quickly deteriorated. At the end of an-Naqschbandi's term of office, the uprising instigated by Barzani in 1961 began. However, Naqschbandi died before Barzani's uprising developed into a year-long Iraqi-Kurdish war and Barzani finally helped the Pan-Arabists (Baathists, Nasserists) to overthrow Qasim.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The first Kurd, who also officially became Vice President, was Taha Muhi ad-Din Ma 1974ruf in 1974 .
  2. ↑ Prime Minister Qassim appointed the Kurd Rashad Arif as an-Naqschbandi's successor in the Sovereignty Council on December 1, 1961 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Yitzhak Oron (Ed.): Middle East Record 1961 , Volume 2, page 260. The Moshe Dayan Center, Tel Aviv 1961
  2. ^ A b c Peter Sluglett: Iraq since 1958. From revolution to dictatorship ("Iraq since 1958", 1987). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1991, p. 90, ISBN 3-518-11661-4
  3. ↑ a b Wadie Jwaideh: The Kurdish National Movement - Its Origins and Development , page 286. Syracuse University Press, New York 2006
personal data
SURNAME Khalid an-Naqschbandi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Naqshbandi, Khalid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iraqi Kurdish politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Amadiya, Northern Iraq
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1961
Place of death Baghdad