Sulaimān an-Nābulusī

Sulaimān an-Nābulusī

Nābulusī 1968 with Nasser

Sulaimān an-Nābulusī (also: Nabulsi ) (* 1908 in as-Salt, Ottoman Empire , today Jordan ; † October 14, 1976 ) was a Jordanian politician and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Jordan for six months from 1956-1957.

Sulaimān an-Nābulusī attended school and college in Nablus , where he then initially worked as a teacher. 1930–1934 he studied economics at the American University of Beirut and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts . Because of his anti-British patriotic sentiments, he was imprisoned for one year by the British Mandate in 1936. He then worked in his family's soap factory and, from 1940, as a bank clerk in Amman.

In the first government of the Kingdom of Transjordan, which became independent in 1946, he was first Minister of Economics in 1947, but again imprisoned in 1949 for anti-British activities and after his release from December 1950 to July 1951 again Minister of Economics in the Samir ar-Rifaʿi cabinet . 1953–1954 he was deported as Jordan's ambassador to London and then on his return founded the National Socialist Party, which unites bourgeois-liberal and left-wing nationalist forces . After serious internal political disputes over the foreign policy course of Jordan (question of accession to the Baghdad Pact ) and a mutiny by pro-Egyptian "free officers" around Abu Nawwar, parliamentary elections took place on October 21, 1956 in the shadow of the Suez crisis , from which the National Socialist Party as strongest group emerged.

Based on an alliance with the Arab-Socialist Baath Party of Jordan, also founded in 1954, and the Communist Party of Jordan, Sulaimān an-Nābulusī replaced Ibrahim Hashem's conservative cabinet on October 27, 1956 and formed a government in which the nationalist Baath politician Abdallah ar-Rimawi became Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister. Sulaimān an-Nābulusīs uncle Abd al-Halim an-Nimr became Minister of the Interior and Defense. On March 14, 1957, the government achieved the termination of the Anglo-Jordanian treaty of 1948 and the withdrawal of the last British troops. The decision to establish diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and refuse a US loan led to opposition from pro-Western, conservative and Islamist circles at court. Domestically, Sulaimān an-Nābulusī had not given in to the Communists' pressure to clean up the old state apparatus, nor had he contributed to a significant improvement in the social situation of the masses. In this power struggle he relied on Egypt and Syria. In contrast, the young King Hussein found support from Saudi Arabia, Great Britain and the USA and was able to force Sulaimān an-Nābulusī's government to withdraw on April 13, 1957, and then the interim government of his successor, Abd al-Halim an-Nimr, on April 15 . In the government of an-Nimr's successor, Hussein Khalidi, Sulaimān an-Nābulusī was still foreign minister, but this government was finally ousted on April 24, 1957. Ibrahim Hashem was again the new prime minister.

After an attempt to overthrow Sulaimān an-Nābulusī and Abdallah ar-Rimawi officers close to Abu Nawwar, the ex-prime minister was arrested again in 1961–1962. His attempt to form a new opposition alliance including the Palestinians in 1968 failed at the latest in the civil war of 1970/71 . During the October War of 1973 an-Nābulusī sharply criticized the king's reluctance.

literature

• Lothar Rathmann : History of the Arabs - From the beginnings to the present , Volume 6 (The struggle for the development path in the Arab world), pages 230-235. Akademie-Verlag Berlin 1983
• Robin Leonard Bidwell : Dictionary of Modern Arab History , p. 292. London / New York 1998

Web links

• Suleiman Nabulsi in the Munzinger Archive , retrieved from the Internationales Biographisches Archiv 01/1977 on December 27, 1976 ( beginning of article freely available)