Muhammad Hasan Abi al-Mahasin

Muhammad Hassan Abi Al-Mahasin Al-Karbala'ie Al-Maliki was an Iraqi poet and politician. He was one of the leaders of the Iraqi revolution against the British occupation during and after the First World War. 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 after independence in 1922. He is of the Albu Muhsin family of Al-Ghati offshoot of Al-Ali tribe a branch of Bani Malik tribe. Muhammad Hasan Abi al-Mahasin is the grandfather of Nouri al-Maliki the prime minister of Iraq since 2006.

References

1. Poems of Abu Al-Mahasin Al-Karbala'aie, by Ali Al-Yacoubi
2. Studies of the Iraqi tribes, by Hmud Al-Sa'idi