Yasin al-Hashimi

Yasin al-Hashimi
ياسين الهاشمي
Yasin al-Hashimi as Minister of Finance, 1927
Prime Minister of Iraq
In office
24 August 1924 – 26 June 1925
MonarchFaisal I
Preceded byJafar al-Askari
Succeeded byAbd al-Muhsin as-Sa'dun
In office
17 March 1935 – 30 October 1936
MonarchGhazi I
Preceded byJamil al-Midfai
Succeeded byHikmat Sulayman
Personal details
Born1884
Baghdad, Baghdad Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
Died21 January 1937 (aged 52–53)
Beirut, Lebanon
Political partyParty of National Brotherhood (during 2nd term)
RelationsTaha al-Hashimi (brother)
Military service
Allegiance Ottoman Empire (1914–1918)
Arab Kingdom of Syria (1918–1920)
 Kingdom of Iraq Kingdom of Iraq (1921–1937)
Branch/service Ottoman Army
Arab Army
Kingdom of Iraq Royal Iraqi Army
Years of service1914–1937
Battles/wars

Yasin al-Hashimi (born Yasin Hilmi Salman; Arabic: ياسين الهاشمي‎; 1884 – 21 January 1937) was an Iraqi military officer and politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Iraq. Like many of Iraq's early leaders, al-Hashimi served as a military officer during the Ottoman control of the country.[1] He made his political debut under the government of his predecessor, Jafar al-Askari, and replaced him as prime minister shortly after, in August 1924. Al-Hashimi served for ten months before he was replaced, in turn by Abdul Muhsin al-Sa'dun. Over the next ten years he filled a variety of governmental positions finally returning to the office of prime minister in March 1935. On 30 October 1936, Hashimi became the first Iraqi prime minister to be deposed in a coup, which was led by General Bakr Sidqi and a coalition of ethnic minorities. Unlike al-Askari, who was then his minister of defense, al-Hashimi survived the coup and made his way to Beirut, Lebanon, where he died three months later. His older brother and close ally, Taha al-Hashimi, served as Prime Minister of Iraq in 1941.

  1. ^ Nakash, Yitzhak (2011). Reaching for Power: The Shi'a in the Modern Arab World. Princeton University Press. p. 87. ISBN 978-1400841462.