1932 in Iraq

← 1931 1930 1929 1932 in Iraq → 1933 1934 1935
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See also:	Other events of 1932 List of years in Iraq

Events in the year 1932 in Iraq.

Incumbents

• Faisal I of Iraq, King, 23 August 1921-8 September 1933
• Naji Shawkat, Prime Minister, 3 November 1932–20 March 1933
• Menahem Saleh Daniel, Senator, 1925-1932^[1]

Events

Iraqi market in Mosul, 1932

• Iraq received its independence on 3 October, ending the British Mandate which began in 1920
• Iraq joined the League of Nations on 6 October
• The Ahmed-Mustafa Barzani revolts, which began in 1931, were suppressed
• The government stopped issuing Indian Rupees and started issuing Iraqi dinars
• Iraqi Red Crescent Society was founded in Baghdad
• Al Shorta SC, multi-sport club based in Rusafa District, was established on 14 November

Births

• Shahab Sheikh Nuri, politician and grandson of Mahmud Barzanji, born in Sulaymaniyah
• Tahir Allauddin Al-Qadri Al-Gillani, head of the Sufi Qadiriyya Baghdadia Spiritual Tariqa, born on 18 June in Baghdad
• Bahija Ahmed Shihab, Iraqi sociologist and one of the pioneering women that helped establish the Sociology department at the College of Arts, University of Baghdad, born on 1 July in Baghdad
• Abdul Jerri, Iraqi-American mathematician
• Shmuel Moreh, born in Baghdad on 22 Decemberprofessor emeritus in the Department for Arabic Language and Literature at the Hebrew University and a recipient of the Israel Prize in Middle Eastern studies in 1999.^[2]

Deaths

• Faisal I of Iraq, King, on 8 September 1933
• Sassoon Eskell, the Kingdom's first Finance Minister

References

1. Basri, Meer. "Prominent Iraqi Jews of recent times". dangoor.
2. "Professor Shmuel Moreh Autobiography and Poetry".