Nasuhi al-Bukhari ( ar, نصوحي البخاري) or Nasuh al-Boukhari ( ar, نصوح البخاري; 1881 – 1 July 1961) was a

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soldier and politician who briefly served as

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in 1939.

Career

Early career

Nasuhi al-Bukhari received his education at the Ottoman Military Academy in

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. He served in the Ottoman Army until he was captured by the Allies during

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. In 1916, after escaping his

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n exile, he went back to Istanbul.Moubayed, 2006, p. 216 When the

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fell in 1918,

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 ...

declared himself King of Syria. Under Faisal, Bukhari commanded the

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garrison before being sent to

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in January 1920 as military attache to

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. In July 1920

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was declared, and the country was divided into several independent states. In September 1920,

Haqqi al-Azm Haqqi al-Azm ( ar, حقي العظم / ALA-LC: ''Ḥaqī al-‘Aẓm''; 1864, in Damascus – 1955) was a Syrian politician active during the late Ottoman period and during the First Syrian Republic. From 1932 to 1934, he served as Prime Minis ...

was appointed governor of the State of Damascus, and in December he appointed Bukhari as minister of military affairs in his administration, which served until 1922. After the suppression of the

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in 1926,

Ahmad Nami "Al-Damad" Ahmad Nami or "Damat" Ahmet Nami ( ar, أحمد نامي, Aḥmad Nāmī; 1873 – 13 December 1962) was an Ottoman prince (damat), the fifth prime minister of Syria and second president of Syria (1926–28), and a lecturer of history ...

was appointed by the new French Commissioner, Henri de Jouvenel, to head a provisional council of ministers in the

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, which comprised the former states of Damascus and

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.Lenczowski, 1980, p. 317. Bukhari served as minister of agriculture in Ahmad Nami's cabinet until its resignation in February 1928.

Premiership

On 5 April 1939, during a cabinet crisis between the ruling National Bloc and the opposition,Moubayed, 1999, p. 130 nationalist leader

Hashim al-Atassi Hashim al-Atassi ( ar, هاشم الأتاسي, Hāšim al-ʾAtāsī; 11 January 1875 – 5 December 1960) was a Syrian nationalist and statesman and the President of Syria from 1936 to 1939, 1949 to 1951 and 1954 to 1955. Background and e ...

called on Bukhari to form a non-party government.Mardam Bey, 1994, p. 17. In addition to being premier, Bukhari held the portfolios of interior and defense, and appointed independent veteran politician,

Khalid al-Azm Khalid al-Azm ( ar, خالد العظم, Khālid al-Aẓim; 11 June 1903 – 18 November 1965) was a Syrian national leader and five-time interim Prime Minister, as well as Acting President from 4 April to 16 September 1941. He was a member of o ...

, minister of economy. Bukhari had responsibility for talks to ratify the Franco–Syrian Treaty of Independence of 1936, but these broke down when the French retreated from the terms of the treaty, and demanded to keep several military bases in the country. He subsequently resigned on 8 July 1939.

Later life

Between August 1943 and November 1944 Bukhari was minister of education and acting minister of defence in

Saadallah al-Jabiri Saadallah Al Jabiri ( ar, سعد الله الجابري; 1893–1947) was a Syrian Arab politician, a two-time prime minister and a two-time Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of Syria. Jabiri was exiled by the French authorities to t ...

's cabinet. However, his subsequent advocacy of a

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with military draft proved electorally unpopular in Damascus. After losing his parliamentary seat in the 1947 elections, he retired from political life.Moubayed, 2006, p. 217

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External links

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