Talib Pasha bin Rajab Al-Naqib Al-Refa'i (Arabic: طالب باشا بن رجب النقيب الرفاعي) was an Iraqi politician, who became the first Minister of Interior in Iraq.

[2] Other sources say that they lived in Mecca, but the Abbasid Caliph, Al-Qa'im Bi-Amrillah, brought them to be the Sheikhs of Nobles of Basra.

[2] He donated some of his money to the Ottomans during their conflicts with the Principality of Bulgaria, and for that, he was given the special rank of Mermaran, by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, in 1895.

Some of al-Naqib's works that Ibn Jum'a reported were: Al-Naqib became the sheikh of nobles in Basra by dealing with bribes and giving them to Abu Hadi al-Sayyadi, which had the trust of the Sultan, he ordered 10k rupees from Ibn Jum'a in order to give it to al-Sayyadi, stirring up the problems in Al-Hasa, so he could suppress them and impress the government, having a big role in putting Kuwait under the British protection, because he was the mastermind behind al-Sabah's works.

[10] In 1903, al-Naqib returned to Istanbul to work in the civil department of the state consultative council until restoring the constitutional monarchy.

He, with the cooperation of Khaz'al al-Ka'bi and Mubarak Al-Sabah, also created a branch of the Freedom and Coalition Party in Basra, on August 6, 1911.

[17] When al-Naqib wasn't invited to the Cairo Conference, in 1921, he objected and threatened to make a rebellion, cooperating with the tribal leaders.

"[18] This statement was copied from a person who attended the banquet, called Tod, to the secretary of the British accreditation house in Iraq, Gertrude Bell.

[20] After returning from exile, al-Naqib decided to retire from political work and avoid meeting any governmental person.

[7] Eliezer Tauber, “Sayyid Talib and the Young Turks in Basra,” Middle Eastern Studies, 25 (1989), pp.