Talib Al-Naqib

Talib Pasha bin Rajab Al-Naqib Al-Refa'i was an Iraqi politician, who became the first Minister of Interior in Iraq.

Family

He was a descendant of Husayn ibn Ali, a grandson of Muhammad The al-Naqib family comes from the city of Mandali, where Talib (the great-grandfather) emigrated with his two sons, Muhammad Sa'eed and Abdul Rahman, to Basra between 1811 and 1814. Other sources say that they lived in Mecca, but the Abbasid Caliph, Al-Qa'im Bi-Amrillah, brought them to be the Sheikhs of Nobles of Basra.

After the death of Talib his son Abdul Rahman inherited the sheikdom in 1874 People called him Robin Hood.

Most of the al-Naqib family moved to Kuwait around 1900 and became famous there.

Governor of Al-Hasa In 1901, al-Naqib was set as the governor of al-Hasa in Najd, after the tribe of Banu Hajar attacked a governmental caravan and stole a value of a million rupees from it; because the leaders of the tribe requested their salary, but the government didn't reply to them. al-Naqib ordered to raid a military camp of Al Murrah, who were responsible for the caravan attack, and took away their money and animals and put it on sale in Al Hufuf and finally, he ordered the other tribes to cut their deals with them, so the other tribes could take them as an example. He accomplished his mission of suppressing the tribal movements and restore peace and was given the special rank of Bala. After a few days, al-Naqib was sacked from his job.

In 1909, he created the Free And Neutral Party. He, with the cooperation of Khaz'al al-Ka'bi and Mubarak Al-Sabah, also created a branch of the Freedom and Coalition Party in Basra, on August 6, 1911. The Constitution newspaper was the speaker of the party, which published its first issue on January 9, 1912. In the 1912 elections, the Freedom and Coalition party won two seats in the parliament. Because of his Arab nationalism beliefs. Ottomans tried to assassinate him via Fareed Bey and Nouri Bey, but al-Naqib prepared a number of armed insurgents that killed them first.

British mandate Shaikh Khaz'al al-Ka'bi Emir of Arabistan (middle), Hugh Bell Mayor of Middlesbrough (right), and al-Naqib (left), in 1920. When the British troops arrived at Basra, in 1914, al-Naqib was captured and exiled to Bombay (Mumbai); because of his objection on the British occupation. He stayed in his exile for five years, before coming back to Iraq and witnessing the 1920 Iraqi revolt. He didn't approve of the revolt; because he believed that political situations should be solved by peaceful solutions. but al-Naqib refused the office; because he thought that such secondary office would degrade his dignity, but he was convinced by Gertrude Bell and St John Philby as long as he would be the second man, after Al-Gillani.

When al-Naqib wasn't invited to the Cairo Conference, in 1921, he objected and threatened to make a rebellion, cooperating with the tribal leaders. He made a banquet, celebrating Perceval Landon with some tribal leaders. He stood in the banquet and said: "We don't like the people in the house of the mandate, because they are interfering in the nation's matters, which its people have the only right to order and own anything they want in it." After returning from exile, al-Naqib decided to retire from political work and avoid meeting any governmental person. He refused to meet King Faisal when he wanted to visit him, but after some interference, they met in 1925, and cleared the problems between them.

Death Al-Naqib had health problems and traveled to Munich for surgery, during which he died on July 16, 1929.