Sheikh Sheikh (pronounced or ; ar, شيخ ' , mostly pronounced , plural ' )—also transliterated sheekh, sheyikh, shaykh, shayk, shekh, shaik and Shaikh, shak—is an honorific title in the Arabic language. It commonly designates a chief of a ...

Muhammad-Hasan Abi al-Mahasin al-Janaji al-Ha'eri (; 1875–1923) was an Iraqi

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

and

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

. He was most famous for his participation in the

Iraqi revolt of 1920 The Iraqi revolt against the British, also known as the 1920 Iraqi Revolt or the Great Iraqi Revolution, started in Baghdad in the summer of 1920 with mass demonstrations by Iraqis, including protests by embittered officers from the old Ottoman ...

Early life and family

Abi al-Mahasin, was born in Karbala in 1874. His grandfather, Muhsin al-Maliki, was the first of the family to migrate from Janaja,

Hilla Hillah ( ar, ٱلْحِلَّة ''al-Ḥillah''), also spelled Hilla, is a city in central Iraq on the Hilla branch of the Euphrates River, south of Baghdad. The population is estimated at 364,700 in 1998. It is the capital of Babylon Province ...

Karbala Karbala or Kerbala ( ar, كَرْبَلَاء, Karbalāʾ , , also ;) is a city in central Iraq, located about southwest of Baghdad, and a few miles east of Lake Milh, also known as Razzaza Lake. Karbala is the capital of Karbala Governorat ...

, residing in Janaja,

al-Hindiya Al-Hindiya or Hindiya ( ar, الهندية) is a city in Iraq on the Euphrates River. Al-Hindiya is located in the Karbala Governorate and is the seat of Al-Hindiya District. The city used to be known as Tuwairij ( ar, طويريج), which gives n ...

in the end of the 19th century. They also gained stature in the city, after marrying into the

Nasrallah Nasrullah ( ar, نصرالله , lit=victory of God) is a masculine given name, commonly found in the Arabic language and is used by Muslims and Christians alike. It may also be transliterated as Nasralla, Nasrollah, Nasrullah, and Al-Nasrall ...

family. He is of the Albu Muhsin family of Al-Ghati offshoot of Al-Ali tribe, a branch of

Bani Malik Sanaa ( ar, صَنْعَاء '), also spelled San'a or Sana, is a governorate of Yemen. Its capital is Sanaa Sanaa ( ar, صَنْعَاء, ' , Yemeni Arabic: ; Old South Arabian: 𐩮𐩬𐩲𐩥 ''Ṣnʿw''), also spelled Sana'a or Sana, ...

tribe.

Biography

Abi al-Mahasin was one of the leaders of the Iraqi revolution against the British occupation during and after the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

. He became Mirza Taqi al-Shirazi's representative, by leading the Revolutionary Council (known as '; ) in 1920. He later became the Minister of Education in the first national government of the royal reign of

King Faisal I Faisal I bin Al-Hussein bin Ali Al-Hashemi ( ar, فيصل الأول بن الحسين بن علي الهاشمي, ''Faysal el-Evvel bin al-Ḥusayn bin Alī el-Hâşimî''; 20 May 1885 – 8 September 1933) was King of the Arab Kingdom of Syria ...

after Iraq's independence in 1922.

Works

Abi al-Mahasin was a renowned poet, and his student Sheikh Muhammad-Ali al-Yaqubi published his diwan for him in 1966, under the name '. Abi al-Mahasin wrote a lot of poetry on

pan-Arabism Pan-Arabism ( ar, الوحدة العربية or ) is an ideology that espouses the unification of the countries of North Africa and Western Asia from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arabian Sea, which is referred to as the Arab world. It is closely c ...

, and the glory of the Arabs, and one of his famous lines includes:

Personal life

Abi al-Mahasin was married to the daughter of Sayyid Ali Nasrallah. He had six sons, Kamil, Muhammad-Husayn, Fadhil, Muhammad-Sharif, Abd al-Razzaq, and Mo'ein. His grandson,

Nouri al-Maliki Nouri Kamil Muhammad-Hasan al-Maliki ( ar, نوري المالكي; born 20 June 1950), also known as Jawad al-Maliki (), is secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party and was the prime minister of Iraq from 2006 to 2014 and the vice president ...

, was the prime minister of

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

from 2006 until 2014.

References

Government ministers of Iraq 20th-century Iraqi poets 1876 births 1925 deaths 19th-century poets of Ottoman Iraq Iraqi revolt of 1920 {{iraq-poet-stub

Early life and family

Biography

Works

Personal life

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