Mohsen Abdel Hamid
Mohsen Abdel Hamid (born 1937) is an Iraqi politician and Islamic scholar who was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council (president, February 2004), created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq. He served as the President of the Governing Council of Iraq (42nd Prime Minister of Iraq).
Mohsen Abdel Hamid
- Name
- Mohsen Abdel Hamid محسن عبد الحميد
- Born
- 1937
- Birthplace
- Kirkuk, Kingdom of Iraq
- Occupation
- Lawyer
- Nationality
- Iraq
- Education
- Cairo University
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• Name — Mohsen Abdel Hamid محسن عبد الحميد • Office — President of the Governing Council of Iraq • Term Start — 1 February 2004 • Term End — 29 February 2004 • Predecessor — Adnan Pachachi • Successor — Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum • Born — 1937 • Birthplace — Kirkuk, Kingdom of Iraq • Party — Iraqi Islamic Party • Occupation — Lawyer
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Mohsen Abdel Hamid (born 1937) is described as an Islamic studies scholar and politician in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. The birth of Mohsen Abdel Hamid is recorded in 1937 in Kirkuk.
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Abdel Hamid was born in 1937 in Kirkuk and is of Kurdish background. He studied Islamic Law in Cairo and returned to Iraq in 1986 to work as a professor at Baghdad University. Abdel Hamid has written over 30 books on interpretation of the Qur'an. He was arrested in 1996 by the government of Saddam Hussein but opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Until 2004 he was the secretary general of the Iraqi Islamic Party, the largest Sunni party in Iraq, and as a result was appointed to the Iraqi Governing Council. On 30 May 2005, Abdel Hamid was mistakenly arrested by U.S. troops.
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Mohsen Abdel Hamid born at Kirkuk.
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