Khayreddin al-Ahdab

Khayr al-Din al-Ahdab was a Lebanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Lebanon during the period of the french mandate , becoming the first Muslim to hold the office. President Emile Eddé appointed him and formed his first cabinet on January 5, 1937, and remained until March 18, 1938 . He formed his second government from March 13, 1937 to July 10, 1937. Prior to this, he published a pan-Arab newspaper.^[1]

His life[]

He was born in 1894 in Beirut to a family originally from Tripoli in the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate during Ottoman rule in Lebanon at the time. His father, Saeed Al-Ahdab, from a Tripoli family that excelled in the fields of science, knowledge and politics, foremost of which is the scholar Ibrahim Al-Ahdab, head of the book of the Sharia Court in Beirut during the Ottoman era. He received his studies in the Ottoman schools , then he traveled to France and studied mathematics at the Sorbonne University. When he returned to Lebanon, he worked in the , then he soon moved to the press. In 1925 he founded the newspaper "" and published the newspaper "Pan-Arab". He had a strong influence in political and cultural circles, especially as he was opposed to the French mandate, so the High Commissioner tried to arrest him, but he managed to escape to Palestine with the militant and soon-to-be prime minister, Riad El Solh .

Political career[]

After his political situation was settled, he returned to lebanon and was elected as Beirut's representative in 1934, then he was appointed as a representative for the North Governorate in 1937.^[1] Given his political, scientific and social role, the High Commissioner was forced to appoint him as Prime Minister and Minister of Justice and Interior in January of 1937, during the reign of President Emile Edde , to please the people of Tripoli and to win them over, because of a Syrian unity demand, and the annexation of Tripoli to Syria. He was appointed prime minister between 1937 and 1938. Therefore, some historians considered that the "coming of the Ashraf". Khaled Shehab, Abdullah El-Yafi, Khayreddin al-Ahdab, prime ministers of that era, were the main premise for the birth of the Lebanese Republic in 1943.

Death[]

He died in 1941 due to unknown causes resulted by WW2 in Marseille, France where his body was burried until 1947 when his remains were transferred to Beirut and buried in the Bachoura cemetery.^[2]

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