Taj ad-Din al-Hasani

Taj ad-Din al-Hasani 1941

Taj ad-Din al-Hasani ( Arabic تاج الدين الحسني ; * 1885 in Damascus , Vilâyet Syria ; † January 17, 1943 ibid) was a Syrian politician and Islamic theologian.

Life

Al-Hasani was born into a Sunni family of Islamic scholars in Damascus, which was then Ottoman in 1885 . Like his father Bader Edine al-Hasani, he studied Islamic theology .

At the time of the French League of Nations mandate over Syria , Taj ad-Din al-Hasani was installed by the French on February 15, 1928 as the first President of the Syrian Republic , which he remained until November 19, 1931. After his dismissal, al-Hasani was compensated with the office of prime minister on March 16, 1934, which he only held until February 22, 1936.

During the Second World War , al-Hasani was reinstated as head of state after the Syrian-Lebanese campaign on September 16, 1941. A week later, Charles de Gaulle of the Free French Forces also recognized the independence of Syria, but remained present with military bases. As a result, al-Hasani moved closer to the nationalist Bloc national , but he died a short time later, on January 17, 1943, of a heart attack.

He was married to Mousirra Midani and had five children.

literature

• Sami Moubayed: Steel & Silk: Men and Women Who Shaped Syria 1900–2000 . Cune Press Seattle, 2005, ISBN 1-885942-41-9 .