Al-Bu Nasir (Iraqi tribe)
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Al-Bu Nasir ألبو ناصر | |
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Arab tribe | |
Ethnicity | Arab |
Nisba | Al-Nasiri (الناصري) |
Location | Mainly Saladin Governorate, minor presence in other parts of Iraq and Syria |
Descended from | Ahmed "Nasir al-Din" ibn Hussein "al-Iraqi" ibn Ibrahim "al-Arabi" ibn Mahmoud "al-Basri" ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Abdullah Qasim "al-Mubarak" ibn Muhammad Khuzam "al-Salim" ibn Abdul Karim "al-Wasiti" ibn Saleh Abd "al-Razzaq" ibn Muhammad ibn Sadr "al-Din Ali" ibn Izz al-Din Ahmed al-Sayyad |
Parent tribe | Banu Al-Sayyad |
Population | 35,000 |
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Language | Arabic |
Religion | Sunni Islam |
Al-Bu Nasir (
Although not very numerous, the Al-Bu Nasir nonetheless obtained a reputation of being "a difficult lot of people, cunning and secretive, whose poverty drove most of them to pervert the
The tribe rose to prominence in the 1960s, when one of its members,
The relatively small size of the tribe was, however, an obstacle to Saddam's ability to fully "tribalise" the institutions of the Iraqi government.[
The power of the al-Bu Nasir and their tribal allies reached its zenith in the 1990s, when Saddam's regime was under great strain from the effects of international sanctions. Tribal chiefs were given extensive patronage, money and weapons as well as membership of the national assembly as a means of binding them to the regime. The old Ba'ath Party structures were to some extent sidelined in favour of an explicitly tribal power structure centred on the al-Bu Nasir.[8] However, the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein greatly reduced the influence of the al-Bu Nasir in the new Iraq.
Notable members
- Youssef Izz al-Din al-Nasiri, Minister of Education 1936-1937
- Ahmed Matlab, Minister of Culture 1967
- Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, President of Iraq 1968-1979
- Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq 1979-2003
- Fadel al-Barrak, chief of the Mukhabarat
- Adnan Khairallah, the Defence Minister of Iraq from 1979 to his death in 1989.
- Uday Hussein and Qusay Hussein, sons of Saddam Hussein
- Ali Hassan al-Majid, former Iraqi Defence Minister and cousin of Saddam Hussein
- Ghanem Qaddouri al-Hamad, president of Tikrit University
References
- ^ a b "جريدة الرياض | أحمد حسن البكر رجل المقاومة الأول ضد بريطانيا". 23 September 2020. Archived from the original on 23 September 2020. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
- ^ "الشيخ علي الندا شيخ عشيرة البيجات يتحدث لـ " الرياض " عن القيادات العراقية من تكريت". Al Riyadh (in Arabic). Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- ^ Said K. Aburish, quoted in Olsen, p. 177
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