He spent his childhood in the Bani Said locality in
Baghdad. He received his doctorate in the year 1958. then governor of the
Central Bank of Iraq for the period from 12 May 1973 to 29 December 1975 and finally
Minister of Finance, succeeding Saadi Ibrahim, who died on October 8, 1975, and remained in office until his death in 1979. He was always smoking, he burned his throat with a cigarette and died because of it. When he died in 1979, "his funeral took place in a spectacular scene that no civilian minister did enjoy at the time." == Literature ==