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Biography of Faisal, IName: Faisal, IBirth Date: May 20, 1883 Death Date: September 8, 1933 Place of Birth: Taif, Arabia (now Saudi Arabia) Nationality: Arabic, Iraqi Gender: Male Occupations: king, nationalist, revolutionary, politician Faisal, I Faisal I (1883-1933) was an Arab nationalist and political leader during and following World War I. He led Arab troops in the revolt against Turkish rule and became king of newly created Iraq.On May 20, 1883, Faisal was born in Taif near the Islamic holy city of Mecca in western Arabia, the third son of Husein ibn Ali and a member of one of Mecca's leading families, which claimed descent from the prophet Mohammed. In 1891 Faisal moved to Constantinople (Istanbul) with his father and brothers because the suspicious Sultan wished to keep Husein under political surveillance. Faisal was raised and educated in the imperial capital. A year after the Young Turk Revolution of 1908, Husein was appointed by the new Ottoman government sharif of Mecca, or protector of the holy places, a position his family had often held before. Faisal returned to Mecca and became a member of the Ottoman Parliament for western …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…Nations in 1932, but Faisal's death on Sept. 8, 1933, introduced a decade of confusion and instability in Iraq under his inexperienced young son, Ghazi. Associated Events Arab Revolt, 1916 Further Reading There is an old biography of Faisal by Beatrice Erskine, King Faisal of Iraq (1933), and a more recent and popular treatment of Husein and his sons in James Morris, The Hashemite Kings (1959). World War I and its aftermath are well covered in Jukka Nevakivi, Britain, France, and the Arab Middle East, 1914-1920 (1969), and in Zeine N. Zeine, The Struggle for Arab Independence: Western Diplomacy and the Rise and Fall of Feisal's Kingdom in Syria (1960). See Henry A. Foster, The Making of Modern Iraq (1935), and Stephen H. Longrigg, Iraq 1900 to 1950 (1953), for a discussion of Iraq under Faisal's rule. Elizabeth Monroe provides good background in Britain's Moment in the Middle East, 1914-1956 (1963).Sheean, Vincent, Faisal: the king and his kingdom, Tavistock, Eng.: University Press of Arabia, 1975. |