Hasan Abu Al-Huda
4th Prime Minister of Transjordan
In office
5 September 1923 – 3 March 1924
Preceded byMazhar Raslan
Succeeded byAli Rikabi
In office
26 June 1926 – 22 February 1931
Preceded byAli Rikabi
Succeeded byAbdullah Siraj
Personal details
Born1871 (1871)
Aleppo, Ottoman Empire
DiedDecember 22, 1937(1937-12-22) (aged 65–66)
Jerusalem
SpouseDevlet Abu Gabal

Hasan Khaled Abu Al-Huda CBE (Arabic: حسن خالد ابو الهدى;‎ 1870 – 1936[1]) was a politician who served as the 4th Prime Minister of Transjordan twice in 1923–24 and 1926–1931.[2] He was Minister of Finance from 1924 to 1926.[3]

Family and early life

Hasan Khaled was the son of Muhammad bin Hasan Wadi, an official of the Ottoman Empire, nicknamed "al-Sayyid Abul Huda" and "al-Sayyadi", from Khan Shaykhun, Syria, who claimed to descend from a local saint. Hasan Khaled's father was the leader of the Rifaʽi sect of Sufiism, Naqib (Chief Sherif) of Aleppo, and religious adviser of Sultan Abdulhamid II on Arab affairs.[4][5][6] Hasan Khaled spent most of his childhood in Istanbul, where his family resided. He married an Egyptian of Turkish origins, Devlet Abu Gabal, with whom he had two daughters, Velia Abdel-Huda (1916-2012), an Oxford-educated socialite and art historian, and Halime Lima Hanımefendi (1919-2000), who married Şehzade Mehmed Nazım, the son of Şehzade Mehmed Ziyaeddin;[7] and a son, Taj al-Din, who, like his grandfather, had been more religiously inclined and was appointed as president of the Aleppan Ashraf in 1942.[8]

Following the Young Turk Revolution, Hasan Khaled is said to have escaped Istanbul to Paris, where he funded himself using the proceeds of a company which he sold. Later, he moved to Alexandria to reside with family. For a time, he resided in the house of Hussein al-Qasab. During this period, he is said to have intrigued with al-Qasab and other Arab nationalists.[9]

Foreign honours

See also

References

  1. ↑ Abul Huda (December 23, 1936). The Times
  2. ↑ "دولة حسن خالد ابو الهدى". Royal Heritage (in Arabic). 1 January 2018. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  3. ↑ "Financial Ministers". mof.gov.jo.
  4. ↑ Abu-Manneh, B (May 1979). "Sultan Abdulhamid II and Shaikh Abul Huda Al-Sayyadi". Middle Eastern Studies. 15 (2): 131–153. doi:10.1080/00263207908700402.
  5. ↑ "Princess Lulie Abul-Huda Fevzi Osmanoglu (1919-2012)".
  6. ↑ Mary C. Wilson, King Abdullah and the Making of Jordan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, p. 14.
  7. ↑ "Princess Lulie Abul-Huda Fevzi Osmanoglu (1919-2012)".
  8. ↑ "مرسوم تعيين تاج الدين أبو الهدى الصيادي نقيباً للأشراف في حلب". 24 February 2019.
  9. ↑ "خطابات نادرة.. صحفي لبناني يرسل لوزير الحربية التركي تحركات رئيس وزراء الأردن وبيعه لشركة الثلج - بوابة الأهرام". Archived from the original on 1 December 2017.


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