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English, hoping on his return to receive an administrative post. An honest and a pleasant
man, not abundantly endowed with brains. Not a decisive personality. He is strongly
opposed to the idea of an Arab Government under an Amir. ~ 6 y
NAQIB ZADAH OF BASRAH, SAIYID HASHIM.
Nephew of the Naqib, the richest of that house and probably the best of them. He
disliked Talib who systematically squeezed him. He is a good Muhammadan and has a
reputation for generosity. Speaks some English, was member of the Majlis Idarah. Not a
prominent man. Was nettled at not having the same position under us that he had under
the Turks. Has lived a most retired life since our occupation. Never comes into Basrah,
and holds aloof from the British community.
NAQIB ZADAH OF BASRAH, SAIYID RAJAB.
The present Naqib of Basrah. An old man of little intelligence- and no courage.
Pro-English from of old and strongly anti-Turk. He was not on very good terms with his
son Saiyid Talib, and disliked the latter’s extravagant expenditure, but feared him. Speaks
and writes English and prides himself on the accomplishment. Spends a good deal of his
time in Kuwait.
NAQIB, ZADAH OF BASRAH, SAIYID TALIB.
Saiyid Talib is the eldest son of the present Naqib of Basrah, Saiyid Rajab. The
family are descendants of the great Muhammadan saint, Saiyid Ahmad al Rafai, whose
tomb stands east of Hai town, and control extensive Waqf property. In 1899 Saiyid
Talib was sent by his father on a mission to Constantinople to complain of the policy of the
Wali r Hamdi Pasha, who was disliked both by the Naqib and by Shaikh Mubarak of
Kuwait. Saiyid Talib succeeded in effecting his removal and returned to Basrah in a
cloud of glory. He secured the friendship of Saikh Khaz'al of Muhammarah by the timely
murder in 1890 of ‘Abdullah Rawanduzi, an individual distasteful to the Shaikh, and from
that time forward received a large yearly subsidy both from Kuwait and from Muhammarah.
He surrounded himself with a bodyguard of cut-throats and scoundrels and with their aid
dominated Basrah, levying blackmail on the rich and plundering all who refused to serve
him. In 1905 Fakhri Pasha, a Wali of unusual determination, had him removed to Con
stantinople where he imbibed new political ideas. When the C.U.P. came to power he
came back to Basrah and posed as the leader of the new party, but his fellow-townsmen
found means of getting rid of him by returning him as a Deputy to Constantinople. Finding
that he could make no profit out of the C.U.P., he joined the more moderate reformers,
and with them evolved the idea of the Hurr al Mu tadil or moderate Liberal movement,
which wms the parent of the Young Arab party. He came back to Basrah, but this time
in opposition to the C.U.P., and found his chief opponent in Sa‘dun Pasha, paramount
chief of the Muntafiq confederation. Him he decoyed into the hands of the Turks in 1 ,
, c ‘Aloimi In 1Q19 rm thp anvir.p. of
Kiamil Pasha, the figure-head of the Liberal party, at that time Grand Vizier, he resolved
to seok tho mmnort of fhe English, and to that end he went to Egypt m 1912, where he saw
‘Abdul Rahman Sister
d. childless 1874.
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Saiyid Talib
(from Mandali, succeeded his brother-
in-law ‘Abdul Rahman).
Saiyid Muhammad Sa'id
(resigned, 1890, d. 1896).
Saiyid Rajab,
(appointed Naqib in 1890).
Saivid Ahmad
[d. 1904). 1
Saiyid Hashim
Talib
Yusuf
Hamad.