Haqqi al-Azm
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Haqqi al-Azm حقي العظم | |
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Muhammad Ali al-Abid | |
Preceded by | Taj al-Din al-Hasani |
Succeeded by | Taj al-Din al-Hasani |
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Born | 1864 Damascus, Ottoman Syria |
Died | 1955 (aged 91) Cairo, Egypt |
Relations | Rafiq al-Azm (cousin) |
Haqqi al-Azm (
Early life and education
Haqqi al-Azm was born in
He began his career as a government clerk, but was soon promoted to the prestigious position of inspector-general at the Ministry of Awqaf. al-Azm was laid off in 1911 when the Turkish nationalist Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) seized control of the ministry in 1911.
Ottoman political career
al-Azm was an unsuccessful candidate in the 1912 Ottoman parliamentary election. Following his defeat, al-Azm moved to Cairo, and helped found the opposition party, Ottoman Party for Administrative Decentralization.[2]
The CUP interpreted diplomatic correspondence between the party and French and British agents as a proof that the party was aiming to guarantee the cession of the Arabic-speaking provinces from the Ottoman Empire. In 1913, al-Azm and other figures in the party were sentenced to death in absentia and they lived as exiles in Cairo.[3] He was also president of the Cairo bureau of the Central Syrian Committee, a French-backed organization which promoted the cession of Syria from the Ottoman Empire since 1908.
Independent Syrian political career
After
In 1932, following the election of
References
- ^ Moubayed; Sami. Haqqi al-Azm (1864-1955), the first Prime Minister in republican Syria, in July 1932
- ^ Khoury, 2003, p.69.
- ^ Khoury, 2003, p.74.
- ^ a b Tauber, 1995, p.170.
- ^ Dumper, 2007, p.125.
- ^ Beck; Sanderson. Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan 1516-1950
Bibliography
- Khoury, Philip S. (2003), Urban Notables and Arab Nationalism: The Politics of Damascus 1860-1920, ISBN 978-0-521-53323-2
- ISBN 978-0-7146-4557-5
- Dumper, Michael; Stanley, Bruce E. (2007), Cities of the Middle East and North Africa: a historical encyclopedia, ISBN 978-1-57607-919-5