Rashid Tali'a

Raschid Tali'a ( Arabic رشيد طليع, DMG Rašīd Ṭalīʿ ; * 1877 in Lebanon ; † September 1926 ) was Prime Minister of Transjordan (April 11, 1921 to August 15, 1921).

Tali'a studied at the Royal School in Istanbul . After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the Syrian King Faisal I called him to Damascus and appointed him Minister of the Interior . When the first government was formed in the Jordanian emirate on April 11, 1921, the Emir Abdallah ibn Husain I commissioned him to head the cabinet.

For his active fight against the French occupation of Syria, Raschid Tali'a was sentenced to death by the French in absentia.

Web links

Jordanian Government website (Arabic)

Individual evidence

^ Mary Christina Wilson: King Abdullah, Britain and the Making of Jordan . Cambridge University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-521-39987-4 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).

personal data
SURNAME	Tali'a, Rashid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Jordan
DATE OF BIRTH	1877
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lebanon
DATE OF DEATH	September 1926

[1] Mary Christina Wilson: King Abdullah, Britain and the Making of Jordan . Cambridge University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-521-39987-4 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).