Muhammad Hassan Abi Al-Mahasin Al-Karbala'ie Al-Maliki was an Iraqi

Iraqi people

The Iraqi people or Mesopotamian people are natives or inhabitants of the country of Iraq, known since antiquity as Mesopotamia , with a large diaspora throughout the Arab World, Europe, the Americas, and...

 poet

Poet

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 and politician

Politician

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. He was one of the leaders of the Iraqi revolution

Iraqi revolt against the British

The Iraqi Revolt against the British , or the Great Iraqi Revolution of 1920, started in Baghdad in the summer of 1920 with mass demonstrations of both Sunni and Shia, including protests by embittered officers from the old Ottoman army, against the policies of British Acting Civil Commissioner Sir...

 against the British occupation during and after the First World War

World War I

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. Muhammad Hasan Abi al-Mahasin was the president of the Revolutionary Council then (Al- majlis Al- milli المجلس الملي) in 1920. He became the Minister of Education in the first national government of the Royal Reign of King Faisal I

Faisal I of Iraq

Faisal bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashemi, was for a short time King of the Arab Kingdom of Syria or Greater Syria in 1920, and was King of the Kingdom of Iraq from 23 August 1921 to 1933...

 after independence in 1922. He is of the Albu Muhsin family of Al-Ghati offshoot of Al-Ali

Al-Ali

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 tribe a branch of Bani Malik

Bani Malik

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 tribe. Muhammad Hasan Abi al-Mahasin is the grandfather of Nouri al-Maliki

Nouri al-Maliki

Nouri Kamil Mohammed Hasan al-Maliki , also known as Jawad al-Maliki or Abu Esraa, is the Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Al-Maliki and his government succeeded the Iraqi Transitional Government. He is currently in his second term as Prime Minister...

 the prime minister of Iraq

Iraq

Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

since 2006.