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Muhammad Ali al-Abid
Muhammad Ali al-Abid was the first president of the Syrian Republic under the French mandate, serving from 1932 to 1936. The son of Izzat Pasha al-Abid, a senior adviser of the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II, he was a wealthy Damascene notable acceptable both to the French and to moderate nationalists. He resigned in 1936 as the National Bloc negotiated a treaty with France.
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