Muhammad Mahdi Kubba () (19001984) was an Iraqi

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and Vice President. Kubba was the President of the Iraqi Independence Party.

Sovereignty Council

In the wake of the

14 July Revolution The 14 July Revolution, also known as the 1958 Iraqi military coup, was a ''coup d'état'' that took place on 14 July 1958 in Iraq, resulting in the toppling of King Faisal II and the overthrow of the Hashemite-led Kingdom of Iraq. The Ira ...

, the new Iraqi Republic was headed by a Revolutionary Council. At its head was a three-man sovereignty council, composed of members of Iraq’s three main communal/ethnic groups. Kubba was appointed to represent the

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population; Khalid al-Naqshabandi the

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; and Najib al Rubay’i the

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population. This tripartite was to assume the role of the Presidency. A cabinet was created, composed of a broad spectrum of Iraqi political movements: this included two National Democratic Party representatives, one member of al-Istiqlal, one Ba’ath representative and one

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.T. Abdullah, ''A short history of Iraq: 636 to the present'', Pearson Education, Harlow, UK,(2003) Following the failed

1959 Mosul uprising The 1959 Mosul Uprising was an attempted coup by Arab nationalists in Mosul who wished to depose the then Iraqi Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim, and install an Arab nationalist government which would then join the Republic of Iraq with the Uni ...

by Arab nationalists, Iraqi Prime Minister

Abd al-Karim Qasim Abdul-Karim Qasim Muhammad Bakr al-Fadhli Al-Qaraghuli al-Zubaidi ( ' ; 21 November 1914 – 9 February 1963) was an Iraqi military officer and statesman who served as the Prime Minister and de facto leader of Iraq from 1958 until his ...

grew increasingly dependent on the Iraqi Communist Party, whose distrust of Arab nationalists seemed vindicated to Qasim by the revolt. Qasim allowed the Communist Party to purge the government of pan-Arabists. Kubba, despite his membership of the Sovereignty Council, was put under house arrest. As a result, the last time Kubba attended a meeting of the Sovereignty Council was in February 1959, although no resignation was ever made public.

Personal life

Kubba was later publish his memoirs, ''Memoirs in the Course of the Events'', in 1965.Memoirs in the Course of the Events - Muhammad Mahdi Kubbah
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References

1900 births 1984 deaths Iraqi Shia Muslims People from Samarra Vice presidents of Iraq {{Iraq-politician-stub