Gaylānī, Rashīd ʿAlī al-

Gaylānī, Rashīd ʿAlī al-

▪ prime minister of Iraq
Gaylānī also spelled  Gailānī,   Gīlānī , or  Kaylānī 
born 1892, Baghdad, Iraq, Ottoman Empire [now Iraq]
died August 28, 1965, Beirut, Lebanon

      Iraqi lawyer and politician who was prime minister of Iraq (1933, 1940–41, 1941) and one of the most celebrated political leaders of the Arab world during his time.

      The son of an aristocratic Sunnite family, Gaylānī studied law at Baghdad Law School. After several years of practice, he entered public life, holding several cabinet posts in the 1920s and '30s, including minister of justice (1924) and minister of the interior (1925–28). After briefly serving as prime minister in 1933, he was reappointed to the post in 1940. At the time World War II (1939–45) was under way, and Gaylānī, a strident Arab nationalist, supported the Axis powers, believing that they would back Arab unity. Thus, he did not sever ties with Italy after that country entered the war alongside the Germans. His response angered Britain, which still had a strong presence in Iraq, and in January 1941 Gaylānī was forced to resign. On April 3, 1941, he staged a pro-Nazi coup in Baghdad, seizing control from the regent, Abd al-Ilāhʿ. British troops were sent to the country, and Gaylānī's regime was toppled in May 1941. Gaylānī thereupon fled to Berlin, where he was received by German leader Adolf Hitler. Afterward he lived in exile in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, returning to Iraq only in 1958 following the revolution that overthrew Iraq's Hāshimite monarchy. In December of that year, Gaylānī was implicated in a plot against President ʿAbd al-Karīm Qāsim (Qāsim, ʿAbd al-Karīm) and was later imprisoned and sentenced to death. In 1961, however, he was released from prison by a special amnesty and soon after settled in Beirut, where he lived out his days.

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