ʿAbd al-Ilāh - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" ʿAbd al-Ilāh - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Sluglett, Peter

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1062816
Doc. NO	:	ALei3213
Main Entry	:	Sluglett, Peter
Title & Author	:	ʿAbd al-Ilāh - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Sluglett, Peter
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(231 words)
Abstract	:	ʿAbd al-Ilāh (1913–58), regent of Iraq from 1939 to 1953, was the son of King ʿAlī of the Ḥijāz and the grandson of Sharīf Ḥusayn of Mecca. He became regent (al-waṣī) after his cousin King Ghāzī died unexpectedly in 1939, leaving as heir a four-year-old son, Fayṣal II, who came of age in 1953. ʿAbd al-Ilāh and Nūrī al-Saʿīd together came to embody many of the shortcomings of the ancien régime. He and Nūrī fled to Jordan in April 1941 when the pro-
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei3213.pdf