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{{Short description|Iraqi politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| native_name         = {{lang|ar|محسن أبو طبيخ}}
| name                = Muhsin Abu-Tabikh
| image               = Muhsin Abu-Tabikh.jpg
| birth_date          = 1878
| birth_place         = [[Ghammas]], [[Ottoman Iraq]]
| death_date          = {{death-date and age|1961|1878}}
| death_place         = [[Baghdad]], [[Iraqi Republic (1958-1968)|Iraqi Republic]]
| battles             = [[Iraqi Revolt]]
*[[Battle Al-Train 1920]]
*[[Battle of Al-Husseiniya River]]
*[[Battle of Al-SiddhaHindi 1920]]
*[[Fall of Najaf]]{{surrendered}}
| country             = Iraq
| nationality         = Iraqi
| honorific_prefix    = [[Sayyid]]
}}
[[Sayyid]] '''Muhsin bin Hassan bin Ali bin Idris''' ({{langx|ar|السيد محسن بن حسن بن علي بن إدريس}}; 1878–1961), better known as '''Muhsin Abu-Tabikh''' ({{lang|ar|محسن أبو طبيخ}}), was a prominent [[Iraqis|Iraqi]] nationalist and one of the leaders of the [[Iraqi Revolt|1920 Iraqi Revolt]].
==Biography==
He was born in 1878 in [[Ghammas]], a district of [[Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate|Diwaniyah Governorate]] in southern [[Iraq]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Abu-Tabikh |first=Muhsin |title=Principles and Men |publisher=Arab Foundation for Studies and Publishing |year=2003 |language=Arabic}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Kamel Abu-Tabikh |first=Ahmed |title=Sayyid Muhsin Abu-Tabikh, Biography and History |year=1999 |edition=1st |language=Arabic}}</ref> Known for his contribution to the [[Iraqi Revolt|Iraqi revolution]] against [[Mandate for Mesopotamia|British occupation]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Kadhim |first=Abbas |title=Reclaiming Iraq: The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State |publisher=University of Texas Press |year=2012 |isbn=9780292739246 |pages=96}}</ref> On October 6, 1920, it was decided by revolutionaries that a national government must be formed through an elected revolutionary council to oversee the areas liberated from the [[British Empire|British]].<ref name=":0" /> Abu-Tabikh was appointed the head of the new government, the administration was set up temporarily in [[Karbala]]. Celebrations took place in the city hall in the midst of crowds that exceeded tens of thousands, where he raised the first [[Iraq]]i flag in modern history.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Al-Asady |first=Taiseer |title=في ذكرى ثورة العشرين الخالدة ... كربلاء الانطلاقة الاولى لحركة الجهاد في العراق ومنع الانكليز من تحقيق مآربهم |url=http://www.non14.net/5277}}</ref>
==After the revolution==
Abu-Tabikh was one of the members of the Iraqi delegation that arrived in Mecca on March 9, 1921, to meet with [[Hussein bin Ali, King of Hejaz|Sharif Hussein]] and ask him to appoint his son as [[List of kings of Iraq|king of Iraq]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Abdul Jabbar |first=Saif Al-Din |title=رجـــــال واحـــداث |work=[[Azzaman]] |url=https://www.azzaman.com/azzaman/ftp/articles/2004/07/07-09/799.htm }}{{dead link|date=September 2023}}</ref> He accompanied [[Faisal I of Iraq|Fasil I]] when he first arrived in Basra on June 23, 1921.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Saleh |first=Jasim |title=فيصل الأول |url=http://odabasham.net/show.php?sid=19540 |website=League of Levant Writers|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150425172505/http://odabasham.net/show.php?sid=19540 |archive-date=2015-04-25 }}</ref> After the formation of the [[Kingdom of Iraq|Iraqi government]], he moved his residence to [[Baghdad]] and married Saniyah Al-Sandoq, the sister of Iraqi archaeologist [[Izz al-Din Al-Sandoq.]] Under the [[Kingdom of Iraq|monarchy]], he was a member of the [[Senate of Iraq|Iraqi senate]] until it was overthrown by the [[14 July Revolution|1958 revolution]]. He stopped his political activity after the 1958 revolution, which had seized most of the agricultural lands that belonged to his family as part of agrarian reform law at that time. However, the [[Iraqi Republic (1958–1968)|republican revolutionaries]] had a great deal of respect and appreciation for him, and he remained a respected and honored figure in his old age. Muhsin Abu-Tabikh died in [[Baghdad]] in 1961.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Abu-Tabikh |first=Jamil |title=Memoirs of Sayyid Muhsin Abu-Tabikh 1910-1960, fifty years of Iraq's modern political history |publisher=Arab Foundation for Studies and Publishing |year=2001 |language=Arabic}}</ref>
==Name and family lineage==
According to [[Jawad al-Shahristani]] he was the descendant of Sayyid Idris, who is considered the first to become known by the title “Abu-Tabikh” for feeding masses of people of his region in the Middle [[Euphrates]]. "Tabikh" means food, which is rice with meat in "the year of famine", he and his descendants became famous for this event and were given the title "Abu-Tabikh".<ref>{{Cite web |last=al-Shahristani |first=Jawad |title=نسب السيد محسن السيد حسن أبو طبيخ |url=http://www.almawsem.net/turath/index2.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603050007/http://www.almawsem.net/turath/index2.htm |archive-date=2013-06-03 }}</ref>
==Works==
He authored the book ''Principles and Men<ref name=":1" />'' and several memoir manuscripts which were collected by his son Jamil Abu-Tabikh into one book, the book was published under the title ''Memoirs of Sayyid Muhsin Abu-Tabikh 1910-1960, fifty years of Iraq's modern political history'' in which he described the [[Iraqi Revolt|1920 revolution]] as "a sacred revolution; a great revolution that influenced history in a significant way." His evidence is that the revolution gave birth to the [[Iraq|Iraqi state]], which was the revolution's "highest goal".<ref name=":0" />
==See also==
* [[Ja'far Abu al-Timman]]
* [[Muhammad Hasan Abi al-Mahasin]]
* [[Shaalan Abu al-Jun]]
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