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Ibrahim Hashem 🇵🇸

إبراهيم هاشم (Known as "Hashem")
Five-Time Prime Minister of Jordan, Supreme Court President, Jurist
Born 1888 🇵🇸 Nablus, Palestine
Passed Away 14 July 1958 Baghdad, Iraq
Lifespan 70 years old
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"Justice is the foundation of kingdom; laws written with equity and administered with clean hands are the truest defense of the state."

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Eminent jurist and five-time Prime Minister of Jordan who drafted Transjordan's first legal codes and died during the 1958 Baghdad coup.

Biographical Record

Ibrahim Hashem was born in Nablus and graduated from the Ottoman Imperial Law Academy in Istanbul, serving as a prosecutor and judge in Beirut, Damascus, and Jaffa. Joining Emir Abdullah I in Amman in 1921, he served as the first Minister of Justice of Transjordan, drafting the nation's foundational judicial and penal codes.

Hashem served five times as Prime Minister between 1933 and 1958, leading the negotiations with Great Britain that secured Jordan's full independence in 1946. In 1958, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of the newly created Arab Federation of Iraq and Jordan, and was tragically killed in Baghdad during the revolutionary mob violence of July 14, 1958.

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Royal Cemetery at Raghadan Palace
Amman, Jordan
GPS: 31.9700, 35.9400
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