Yasin al-Hashimi

Yasin al-Hashimi
Yasin al-Hashimi as Finance Minister, 1927
4th Prime Minister of Iraq
In office 2 August 1924 – 26 June 1925
Monarch	Faisal I
Preceded by	Jafar al-Askari
Succeeded by	Abd al-Muhsin as-Sa'dun
In office 17 March 1935 – 30 October 1936
Monarch	Ghazi I
Preceded by	Jamil al-Midfai
Succeeded by	Hikmat Sulayman
Personal details
Born	1884
Died	1937 (aged 54–55)
Political party	Party of National Brotherhood (during 2nd term)
Relations	Taha al-Hashimi (brother)
Military service
Allegiance	Ottoman Empire (1914–1918) Arab Kingdom of Syria (1918–1920)
Service/branch	Ottoman Army Arab Army

Yasin al-Hashimi, born Yasin Hilmi Salman (Arabic: ياسين الهاشمى‎‎‎; 1884–21 January 1937), was an Iraqi politician who twice served as the prime minister. Like many of Iraq's early leaders, al-Hashimi served as a military officer during Ottoman control of the country. He made his political debut under the government of his predecessor, Jafar al-Askari, and replaced him as prime minister shortly after, in August 1924. Al-Hashimi served for ten months before he was replaced, in turn by Abd al-Muhsin as-Sa'dun. Over the next ten years he filled a variety of governmental positions finally returning to the office of prime minister in March 1935. On 30 October 1936, Hashimi became the first Iraqi prime minister to be deposed in a coup, which was led by General Bakr Sidqi and a coalition of ethnic minorities. Unlike al-Askari, who was then his minister of defense, al-Hashimi survived the coup and made his way to Damascus, Syria, where he died three months later. His older brother and close ally, Taha al-Hashimi, served as Prime Minister of Iraq in 1941.

Al-Hashimi was born as "Yasin Hilmi" in Baghdad in 1884, during Ottoman rule. His father, Sayyid Salman, was the mukhtar (headman) of the Barudiyya Quarter of Baghdad and claimed descent from the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The family was middle class, Sunni Muslim and ethnically Arab, although the family's claim of Arab descent has been disputed. According to historian Muhammad Y. Muslih, the family were descendants of the Turkish Karawiyya tribe that settled in Iraq in the 17th century.