Draft:Mohammad Idris al-Senussi
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| Name | Mohammad Idris al-Senussi |
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| Death Place | Cairo |
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| Religion | Islam |
Mohammad Idris al-Senussi (Arabic: محمد إدریس السنوسی) was the first and only King of Libya, who reigned from 1951 to 1969 CE. He was also the leader of the Islamic Senussi group.
Reign
When World War II broke out in 1939, Mohammad Idris al-Senussi allied with the Allies. He considered joining them the only way to remove the Italians from Libya. He met with Libyan leaders in Egypt and it was decided that a national army of Libyan residents in Egypt would be created under the command of the United Kingdom, and thus "Jish al-Tahrir" was created with more than 11,000 soldiers.
Mohammad Idris al-Senussi asked Libyans to help the Allied forces, which caused Libyan soldiers present in the Italy army to separate from it and join Jish al-Tahrir.
Mohammad Idris al-Senussi returned to Libya and began an exhausting political action for the acceptance of Libya's independence in the United Nations. Finally, in 1949, his representatives in the United Nations were able to pass UN Resolution 289. According to this resolution, the United Nations had to recognize the independence of Libya by January 1952 at the latest.
On 24 December 1951, the independence of Libya was declared and Mohammad Idris al-Senussi declared himself King of the United Kingdom of Libya. The Senussi movement is the basis for the establishment of this new government in Libya and before that Libya was scattered cities like Benghazi and Tripoli and Fezzan.
Gaddafi Coup
On 1 September 1969, a group of young Libyan officers led by Muammar Gaddafi rose up against Mohammad Idris al-Senussi, the Hejazi-origin King of Libya, who was abroad (Turkey), and removed him from power. Muammar Gaddafi, who was 27 years old at the time, along with a group influenced by the Nationalist ideas of Gamal Abdel Nasser, staged a coup and called it a revolution. Six months after the coup, the oil industry of Libya, which had been in foreign hands since 1959, was nationalized; in the same month, the military base of the United Kingdom was removed from the soil of Libya, and three months later, the military base of the United States. Independence of Libya had been agreed upon in 1947 but was not implemented until 24 December 1951. Muammar Gaddafi was captured by armed opponents on 20 October 2011 and killed. Armed opposition to the Libyan government, which Gaddafi was practically the leader of, had begun on 17 February 2011 from the northeast of the country[1].
The long government of Muammar Gaddafi from the 1969 CE coup to overthrow as a result of civil war in 2011, was one of the longest periods of rule in history.
Exile and Last Residence
Mohammad Idris al-Senussi fled from Turkey by ship to Greece and then to Cairo and spent the rest of his life there. In 1969, in the people's court of Libya in which he was absent, he was sentenced to death. He died in 1983 in Cairo and was buried in Al-Baqi, Medina, Saudi Arabia.[2]