The role of Karbala city in establishing education in Iraq

Due to the general climate on which the city of Karbala was grown as an unrivaled center of science, literature and culture, its representatives in the Iraqi parliament during the monarchy era have successfully embodied this climate for being graduates of the seminars, religious and jurisprudential centers that have filled this city throughout its blessed history.

One of the signs of the role played by Karbala MPs in the newly-established parliament is that most of them were postgraduates of esteemed universities inside and outside Iraq, especially in the field of law, including, but not limited to, the MP and lawyer Saleh Bahr al-Ulum, Saad Saleh Jrew, and Saad Omar al-Alwan, as well as Sadiq Kamuna, Mohammed Mahdi al-Wahab, and Mohammed Jawad al-Khatib, in addition to MP Ali al-Safi, who had then two PhD degrees in economics and mechanical engineering from Germany, beside too many other politicians.

It is noteworthy about the role of Karbala and its deputies in consolidating the advanced educational system in Iraq back then, is the succession of many of these MPs to assume the position of the Minister of Education when no one else dared to do so, most notably of them was Abdul Karim al-Jazairi, Hiba al-Din al-Shahristani, Abdul Mohsen Shalash, and Mohammed Ridha Shabibi and others (1).

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(1) The stance of Karbala city's MPs in the Iraqi Parliament in the monarchy era - a historical study: by Mohammed Radhi al-Kaide al-Shammari.