Haqqi al-Azm was a Syrian politician active during the late Ottoman period and during the First Syrian Republic.
10 Facts About Haqqi al-Azm
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Haqqi al-Azm was a co-founder of the Ottoman Party for Administrative Decentralization.
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Haqqi al-Azm was born in Damascus, Ottoman Syria, in 1864 to the prominent Al-Azm family.
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Haqqi al-Azm was educated at the Lazarist missionary school in Damascus and later at the military academy in Istanbul.
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Haqqi al-Azm began his career as a government clerk, but was promoted to the prestigious position of inspector-general at the Ministry of Awqaf.
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Haqqi al-Azm was president of the Cairo bureau of the Central Syrian Committee, a French-backed organization which promoted the cession of Syria from the Ottoman Empire since 1908.
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Haqqi al-Azm opposed the Arab Revolt and called it the "Hijazi revolt".
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Haqqi al-Azm allied himself with the French mandate authorities, and was appointed the first governor of the State of Damascus in 1921.
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Haqqi al-Azm reportedly won friends inside the administration by handing out jobs.
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Haqqi al-Azm later died in 1955 at the age of 91 in Cairo.