Facts: - death place: paris , france - order: head of state of syria - successor: hashim al-atassi - party: national bloc - death date: 1939 -lrb- aged 72 -rrb- - predecessor: taj al-din al-hasani - spouse: zahra al-yusuf - term end: december 21 , 1936 - term start: june 11 , 1932 - birth date: 1867 - name: muhammad ali al-abed - image: muhammad ali al-abid . jpg - birth place: damascus , ottoman empire - religion: sunni islam Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of muhammad ali al-abid .
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muhammad ali al-abed -lrb- / ala-lc : '' muhammad ' ali al - ' Abed '' ; 1867 -- 1939 -rrb- was appointed the first president of syria -lrb- from 11 june 1932 until 21 december 1936 -rrb- as a nominee of the nationalist syrian parliament in damascus after the country received partial recognition of sovereignty from france .france agreed to recognize syria as a nation under intense nationalist pressure but did not withdraw its troops completely until 1946 .