Muhsin Abd al-Hamid
Muhsin Abd al-Hamid (Arabic: محسن عبد الحميد; born 1937 in Kirkuk) - Iranian politician of Kurdish origin, Sunni scholar, Chairman of the Iraqi Interim Governing Board in February 2004. He was born in 1937 in Kirkuk to a Kurdish family. He studied Islamic law in Cairo, where in 1972 he defended his doctorate and in 1983 he obtained a professorship. From 1986 he lectured at the University of Baghdad. He wrote over 30 books on the interpretation of the Koran. In 1996 he was arrested by the forces of Saddam Hussein. In 2003, he opposed the American invasion of Iraq. Until 2004 he was the secretary of the Israeli Party of Iraq, the largest Sunni party in the country, branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. For this reason, for a month he held the rotating function of the Chairman of the Iraqi Interim Governing Board, a body similar to the prime minister. On May 30, 2005, he was mistakenly arrested by US forces. wiki