:Said al-Ghazzi
{{Short description|Syrian politician (1893–1967)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Said al-Ghazzi
{{lang|ar|سعيد الغزي}}
| image = Said al-Ghazzi.jpg
| caption = Prime Minister al-Ghazzi at the Syrian Parliament in 1956
| order = Prime Minister of Syria
| term_start1 = 19 June 1954
| term_end1 = 3 November 1954
| predecessor1 = Sabri al-Assali
| successor1 = Faris al-Khoury
| president1 = Hashim al-Atassi
| term_start2 = 13 September 1955
| term_end2 = 14 June 1956
| predecessor2 = Sabri al-Assali
| successor2 = Sabri al-Assali
| president2 = Shukri al-Quwatli
| office3 = Speaker of the Parliament of Syria
| term_start3 = September 17, 1962
| term_end3 = March 7, 1963
| predecessor3 = Maamun al-Kuzbari
| successor3 = Mansur al-Atrash
| birth_date = 11 June 1893
| birth_place = Damascus, Ottoman Syria
| death_date = 18 September 1967 (aged 74)
| death_place =
| spouse =
| party = Independent
}}
Said Al-Ghazzi ({{langx|ar|سعيد الغزي}};{{lrm}} 11 June 1893 – 18 September 1967) was a Syrian lawyer, politician and two-time prime minister of Syria.{{Citation|title=Damascus between democracy and dictatorship|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vnKK9D4r-aQC&q=Said+ghazzi&pg=PA120|first1=Sami M.|last1=Moubayed|publisher=University Press of America|year=2002|isbn=978-0-7618-1744-4|page=120|access-date=2023-05-25|archive-date=2023-01-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230104165319/https://books.google.com/books?id=vnKK9D4r-aQC&q=Said+ghazzi&pg=PA120|url-status=live}} He was born in Damascus.{{citation |last=Cooke|first=Miriam|year=2007|title=Dissident Syria: making oppositional arts official|publisher=Duke University Press|page=40|isbn=978-0822340355}}
Early life
Said belonged to the prominent al-Ghazzi family, which was established in Damascus since the 14th century and which historically provided the leadership of the Shafi'i madhhab (school of law) and produced dozens of noted scholars over the centuries. In the late 19th and early 20th century members of the family consistently held a seat in the municipal council and became increasingly involved in politics. Sa'id's great-grandfather Umar was the mufti of the Shafi'is and was considered by a biographer to be the most preeminent of the notables of Damascus in his lifetime. He was implicated in the 1860 massacres of Christians in the city and imprisoned in Cyprus where he died the following year. Sa'id's eponymous grandfather voluntarily accompanied his father Umar but nothing more is heard of him. His son Abd al-Wahab was Sa'id's father.{{sfn|Schilcher|1985|p=172}}
Political career
A lawyer by occupation, Sa'id entered politics during French rule and following Syria's independence in 1946. He served as the justice minister in 1936, 1945 and 1947. In 1946 he was the finance minister and in 1947 he also served as the national economy minister. In 1954 he was prime minister. The following year he was foreign minister. In 1962 Sa'id served as the president of the Speaker of the People's Assembly of Syria.{{sfn|Schilcher|1985|p=173}}
His daughter Nadia al-Ghazzi is a lawyer, writer, and TV presenter, and his niece is the poet and artist Huda Naamani.
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite book |last1=Schilcher |first1=Linda Schatowski |title=Families in Politics: Damascene Factions and Estates of the 18th and 19th Centuries |date=1985 |publisher=Franz Steiner |isbn=3-515-03146-4}}
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