Salman al-Murshid
Member of Syrian Parliament
Salman al-Murshid (1907 – 16 December 1946) was a Syrian religious figure whom was the founder of Murshidism, an offshoot of Alawism.
Early life
Salman al-Murshid was born to an Alawite family in the village of Jawbat Burghal, in the Latakia Sanjak. His emerging power and preaching of Murshidism worried both local notable Alawite families and the French authorities, who arranged to have him and some of his followers sent to Raqqa in exile in the mid-1920s. Yet when al-Murshid returned, he managed to patch up his problems with local notables.
In 1937, he became a member of the Chamber of Deputies, now the People's Assembly, and avoided the separatist approach advocated for by some among Syria's minority groups. Yet once it appeared that the French would not make good on their promise to grant Syria independence in 1936, al-Murshid began to call for independence again. In 1943, he was elected once more as a member of the Chamber of Deputies.
In 1944, under British instigation, al-Murshid was arrested in Beirut and kept in Damascus under house arrest for a few months.
The Syrian government tried to charge him with treason and other civil charges, but they could not prove any of the charges. Hence, the Judge received a direct order from the president, Shukri al-Quwatli, to convict Salman by any means, and he was executed on 16 December 1946 in Marjeh Square in Damascus.
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