Sayyid Abd al-Rahman al-Haidari al-Gaibani

Image by Sayyid Abd ar-Rahman al-Haidari al-Gaibani around 1910/20

Sayyid Abd ar-Rahman al-Haidari al-Gaibani ( Arabic عبد الرحمن الحيدري الكيالي, DMG Sayyid ʿAbd ar-Raḥman al-Qādir al-Jīlānī ) (* 1841 in Baghdad ; † 1927 ibid) was the provisional president during the establishment of modern Iraq from 1920 to 1922.

Life

Abd ar-Rahman al-Haidari, also known as Sheikh Gillani, came from a well-known Baghdad Sufi family and, as a direct descendant of ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī, was their religious head. In 1920, after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, he became President of the Council of Ministers of Iraq. After the Iraqi uprising of 1920/1921 , a Hashemite monarchy was to be established with King Faisal I as the first ruler in Iraq. Abd ar-Rahman al-Haidari served as provisional president of Iraq for a transitional period. With his new government, the British signed the First Anglo-Iraqi Treaty in 1922 , which gave Great Britain a control function in the administration of the country for a fixed period of 20 years. Abd al-Rahman al-Haidari ultimately rejected the results of the negotiations and resigned shortly thereafter. Faisal became the new head of state as king. Abd ar-Rahman al-Haidari died in Baghdad in 1927.

literature

• Marion and Peter Sluglett: Iraq since 1958 - From Revolution to Dictatorship. Suhrkamp Frankfurt, 1991.