Rashid Ṭaliʽa

Rashid Ṭaliʽa (Arabic: رشيد طليع;‎ 1877 – 17 September 1926) was a Jordanian politician of Lebanese Druze descent. He was the first Prime Minister of Transjordan from 11 April 1921 to 5 August 1921.

Rashid Ṭaliʽa
1st Prime Minister of Transjordan
In office
11 April 1921 – 5 August 1921
MonarchKing Abdullah I
Preceded byoffice established
Succeeded byMazhar Raslan
Personal details
Born
Rashid Ali Hussein Nassif Taliʽa

1877 (1877)
Ottoman Empire
Died17 September 1926(1926-09-17) (aged 48–49)
Shbeiki, State of Syria
Political partyIndependent

He participated in the Great Syrian Revolt against the French authorities in 1925, until he was killed on 17 September 1926 in Shbeiki, Jabal Druze, where he was also buried and had a memorial there.

Biography

Ṭaliʽa was born to a Druze family in 1877 in Lebanon. He studied at the Istanbul University, then held several senior positions, in which he became the mutasarrif of Hauran, Tripoli and Latakia. He established a committee in Jerusalem along with Adil Arslan and Fouad Slim to support the Egyptian Revolution of 1919. Upon the conclusion of the First World War, he joined King Faisal I in Damascus, based on the recommendations of Muhammad Yusuf al-Shurayqi. He was later appointed as a military governor in Hama.

Afterwards, he became the first Minister of Interior in Syria from 30 September 1918 to 8 March 1920. He then became a governor in Aleppo, before the Battle of Maysalun. He left Syria to the Emirate of Transjordan, in which he became the first Prime Minister on 11 April until 23 June 1921, during the reign of Abdullah I, then for a second tenure from 5 July to 5 August 1921, in which his premiership was dissolved due to pressure from the British authorities. He participated in the Great Syrian Revolt against the French authorities in 1925, until he was killed on 17 September 1926 in Shbeiki, Jabal Druze, where he was also buried and had a memorial there.[1][2]

See also

References
  1. "أول رئيس حكومة أردنية - دولة رشيد طليع". Royal Hashemite Documentation Centre (in Arabic).
  2. "أبطال الثورة: رشيد طليع". Arab Revolt (in Arabic).
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