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{{Short description|Prime minister of Iraq in 1941}}
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| office              = [[Prime Minister of Iraq]]
| term_start          = 3 February 1941
| term_end            = [[1941 Iraqi coup d'état|2 May 1941]]
| monarch             = [[Faisal II]]
| 1blankname          = [[Regent of Iraq|Regent]]
| 1namedata           = [['Abd al-Ilah|Prince Abdullah]]
| predecessor         = [[Rashid Ali al-Gaylani]]
| successor           = Rashid Ali al-Gaylani
| order2              = 
| office2             = President of the United Popular Front
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| vicepresident2      = [[Mohammed Ridha Al-Shabibi]]
| predecessor2        = 
| successor2          = [[Mohammed Ridha Al-Shabibi]]
| birth_date          = 1888
| birth_place         = [[Baghdad]], [[Ottoman Iraq]]
| death_date          = {{death year and age|1961|1888}}
| death_place         = [[London]], United Kingdom
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| party               = [[United Popular Front (Iraq)|United Popular Front]]
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| relations           = [[Yasin al-Hashimi]]
(brother)
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| native_name         = طه الهاشمي
| native_name_lang    = ar
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'''Taha al-Hashimi''' ({{langx|ar|طه الهاشمي}}; born 1888, died 1961) was an Iraqi politician and served as [[Prime Minister of Iraq]] in 1941.

==Biography==
Al-Hashimi was born in Baghdad in 1888.<ref name=mqay>{{cite journal|author=Mahmoud al-Qaysi|title=Taha al-Hashimi and the Origins of the Iraqi Elite's Approach to Japan|year=2016|doi=10.14989/210345|page=83|journal=Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies|volume=9}}</ref> After his religious education he attended a primary school. He graduated from a military secondary school in 1903.<ref name=mqay/> Then he attended the Military College in Istanbul and graduated in 1906. Following his graduation he joined the [[Military of the Ottoman Empire|Ottoman army]] as an officer.<ref name=mqay/> He became a captain in 1909 after completing his studies at the General Staff College.<ref name=mqay/>

Al-Hashimi served briefly as the prime minister of Iraq for two months, from 1 February 1941, to 2 May 1941.  He was appointed prime minister by the regent, [['Abd al-Ilah]], following the first ouster of the pro-[[Axis Powers|Axis]] government of [[Rashid Ali al-Kaylani|Rashid Ali al-Gaylani]] during [[World War II]]. When Abdul-Illah fled the country, fearing an assassination attempt, Hashimi resigned, and the government reverted to Gaylani. His  brother, [[Yasin al-Hashimi|Yassin]], was the Iraqi prime minister in 1924 and in 1936.

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[[Category:Prime ministers of Iraq]]
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[[Category:Ministers of foreign affairs of Iraq]]


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