Shakir al-Shabani
Shakir al-Shabani | |
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شاكر نعمة الشعباني | |
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| Minister of Finance of Syria | |
| In office 1932–1934 | |
| President | Muhammad Ali al-Abid |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1901 Aleppo, Aleppo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 1958 Aleppo, United Arab Republic |
| Occupation | Politician, industrialist |
Shakir Ni'mat al-Shabani (Script error: The function "langx" does not exist.; 1901–1958) was a Syrian politician, industrialist and parliamentarian who served as Minister of Finance on two occasions — in the 1926 government of Ahmad Nami and in the 1932 government of Haqqi al-Azm. A notable of Aleppo, he was also an early industrialist who helped pioneer mechanized textile manufacturing and the cultivation of American cotton in Syria.[1][2]
Early life
Al-Shabani was born in Aleppo in 1901. He belonged to a prominent family of the Bani Shaban tribe, whose origins lay in the Raqqa region and who were landowners and notables within the local Ottoman bureaucratic elite. He was educated at the German school in the Sulayba quarter of Latakia. In 1923 he contracted trachoma in his eyes and travelled to Europe, to Vienna and Berlin, for study and treatment.[1]
Business and industry
During the French Mandate, al-Shabani published the newspaper al-Ahali. In the early 1930s he went into trade and industry with his brother, founding a spinning and weaving mill that became one of the early nuclei of mechanized industry in the country. He and his brother Ahmad Khalil al-Mudarris were among the first landowners to introduce the cultivation of American ("Lonestar") cotton on their estates, a crop the French had earlier trialled near Jableh in 1922. Around 1950, while serving on the board of the Aleppo Chamber of Agriculture, he co-founded "Mudarris and Reinhard", a firm for drilling artesian wells, with an office near the Baron Hotel.[1]
Political career
Al-Shabani held the office of Minister of Finance twice. He first served in the finance portfolio in the 1926 government of Ahmad Nami; in September 1926 the government sent him, together with the minister of justice, to the Sanjak of Alexandretta to witness a declaration by the sanjak's representatives in favour of its union with Syria.[3]
He sat as a member of parliament in the Syrian Republic under the French Mandate.[1][4] He again became Minister of Finance in a cabinet headed by Haqqi al-Azm under President Muhammad Ali al-Abid. Several accounts place him in the finance portfolio of the government formed in June 1932, which remained in office until its resignation on 17 March 1934;[2] other accounts date his appointment to a reshuffle on 3 May 1933, when he succeeded Jamil Mardam Bey as finance minister.[5] He is also reported to have served as governor of Aleppo in 1939.[citation needed]
In early August 1932 al-Shabani visited Beirut, where the newspaper Lisan al-Hal published an interview with him on 8 August 1932 concerning the Syrian nationalists' opposition to the mandate authorities.[6][7]
Al-Shabani died in Aleppo in March 1958.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 al-Ayyashi, Ghalib (1955). الإيضاحات السياسية وأسرار الانتداب الإفرنسي في سورية [Political Clarifications and the Secrets of the French Mandate in Syria] (in العربية). Maṭābiʻ Ashqar Ikhwān. Search this book on
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 محطات من تاريخ سورية في ظل الهيمنة الفرنسية 1920–1946 [Stations in the History of Syria under French Domination, 1920–1946]. Al-Dhad International Journal for Humanities and Social Sciences (in العربية). Retrieved 28 June 2026.
- ↑ سلخ لواء اسكندرون عام 1939 [The severance of the Sanjak of Alexandretta, 1939]. The Modern History of Syria (al-Tārīkh al-Sūrī al-Muʻāṣir) (in العربية). Retrieved 28 June 2026.
- ↑ شاكر الشعباني يلقي خطاباً في افتتاح دورة جديدة للبرلمان السوري [Shakir al-Shabani delivers a speech at the opening of a new session of the Syrian parliament]. The Modern History of Syria (al-Tārīkh al-Sūrī al-Muʻāṣir) (in العربية). Archived from the original on 5 December 2024.
- ↑ حقي العظم [Haqqi al-Azm]. The Modern History of Syria (al-Tārīkh al-Sūrī al-Muʻāṣir) (in العربية). Retrieved 28 June 2026.
- ↑ مقابلة شاكر نعمت الشعباني مع صحيفة لسان الحال عام 1932 [Shakir Niʻmat al-Shabani's interview with the newspaper Lisan al-Hal in 1932]. The Modern History of Syria (al-Tārīkh al-Sūrī al-Muʻāṣir) (in العربية). 29 April 2024. Retrieved 28 June 2026.
- ↑ كيف يعارض الوطنيون السوريون [How the Syrian Nationalists Oppose]. Lisan al-Hal (in العربية) (1355). Beirut. 8 August 1932.
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