محمد صالح حرب ودوره في حركة الجهاد الليبي

Abstract

After the Italian invasion of Libya in 1911 AD, Libyan first managed to repel the Italian attack, but things became to their disadvantage, that some tribes specially in Burqa (cereynica) were forced to emigrate to Egypt to take it as abase of orginizing their ranks against the colonizer. Some Egyptian characters played an important role in supporting this movement. The most prominent of these characters was Mohammed Salih Harb(1889-1968) the Qumamdan of Marsa Matruh at that time, he was the first Egyptian officer among a group of officers and Collaborators from the national party who join the Senussi army. Mohammed Salih Harb played a great role in supporting the fighters (Mujahideen) by providing them with weapons, supplies and equipment, and he also helped in forming of the Libyan army in Abu Rawash desert in 1940 when he was a minister in Ali Maher Pasha government 1939-1940 AD. The importance of this study comes through the cohesion that neither the Libyan nor Egyptian states can afford to abandon when one of them is exposed to danger.