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Also Known As al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf al-Thaqafī
Born 661 • Al-Ṭāʾif • Saudi Arabia
Died June 714 (aged 53) • Wāsiṭ • Iraq
Title / Office governor (694-714), Iraq
Faisal I
Faisal I
king of Iraq
Jaʿfar al-ʿAskarī
Iraqi statesman
Khālid al-Qasrī
Umayyad governor of Iraq
Yazīd ibn al-Muhallab
Umayyad governor
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein
president of Iraq
Nouri al-Maliki
Nouri al-Maliki
prime minister of Iraq
Tariq Aziz
Iraqi public official
Ibrahim al-Jaafari
prime minister of Iraq
Ayad Allawi
Ayad Allawi
prime minister of Iraq
Nuri al-Said
Nuri al-Said
Iraqi statesman
ʿAbd al-Karīm Qāsim
prime minister of Iraq
Gertrude Bell, c. 1910.
Gertrude Bell
English politician and writer
Talabani, Jalal
Jalal Talabani
president of Iraq
Uday Hussein
Uday Hussein
Iraqi official
L. Paul Bremer III
American statesman
Mustafa al-Barzani
Kurdish military leader
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani
prime minister of Iraq
Faisal II
king of Iraq
ʿAbd al-Salām ʿĀrif
president of Iraq
Jamil al-Midfaʿi
Iraqi statesman