The only son of Faysal I after
three daughters. He was left to the care of his grandfather while his father
was busy in his campaigns and travels. Thus he grew as shy inexperienced
young man which had allot of effect on his short reign. He left Hijaz to
Jordan with the rest of the Hashimites in 1924 after their defeat by the
Saudis. He came to Baghdad at the same year and was appointed as the crown
prince.
He was crowned as Ghazi I after the
death of his father in December 1933. He was very known of his pro-Arab
Nationalism. He had sympathies to the Nazi Germany. He was claiming Kuwait
to be annexed to the Iraqi territories, and for that purpose he had his own
radio station in al-Zuhoor royal palace in which he promoted that claim.
Under his reign the first coup d'état
in Iraq and the Arab world took place in 1936, when general Bakir Sidqi led
a coup to bring back the ousted prime minister Hikmat Sulayman.
He was killed in a mysterious car
accident in April 1939.
