Nabih al-Azma
{{Short description|Syrian politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Nabih al-Azma
| image = NabihAlAzmah.jpg
| office = Minister of Defense
| native_name = نبيه العظمة
| succeeded = Ahmad al-Sharabati
| preceded = Saadallah al-Jabiri
| termstart = 27 April 1946
| termend = 17 June 1946
| birth_date = 1886
| birth_place = Damascus, Syria
| death_date = {{death year and age|1964|1886}}
| death_place = Damascus, Syria
}}
Nabih al-Azma ({{langx|ar|نبيه العظمة}}; 1886 – 1964) was a Syrian politician and the defense minister of Syria in 1946.{{Cite book|last=Moubayed|first=Sami M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sC-xU8QHSooC&dq=Nabih+al-Azma&pg=PA193|title=Steel & Silk: Men and Women who Shaped Syria 1900-2000|date=2006|publisher=Cune Press|isbn=978-1-885942-40-1|language=en}}
Background
Nabih was born in Damascus in 1886 to a notable family in Damascus and he was the nephew of Yusuf al-'Azma, members of the al-Azma family in Syria. He studied at the Ottoman Military Academy and graduated in 1917 from Istanbul.
Career
He was elected to the Syrian parliament, and served as defense minister in 1946.{{Cite book|last=Khoury|first=Philip Shukry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tvP_AwAAQBAJ&dq=Nabih+al-Azma&pg=PA517|title=Syria and the French Mandate: The Politics of Arab Nationalism, 1920-1945|date=2014-07-14|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-1-4008-5839-2|language=en}}
References
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Category:Ministers of defense of Syria
Category:Ottoman Military Academy alumni
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