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Isma'il Pasha
Sign in to saveAlso known as Ismā‘īl Bāshā, İsmail Paşa, Ismail the Magnificent, Ismaʿil, Ismail Pasha, Khedive Ismail
Khedive of Egypt from 1863 to 1879
Key facts
- Reign
- 19 January 1863 – 26 June 1879
- Predecessor
- Sa'id (as Wāli (unrecognized Khedive) of Egypt)
- Successor
- Tewfik
- Born
- ( 1830-12-31 ) 31 December 1830, Cairo , Egypt Eyalet , Ottoman Empire
- Died
- 2 March 1895 (1895-03-02) (aged 64), Constantinople , Ottoman Empire
- Burial
- Al-Rifa'i Mosque , Cairo , Egypt
- Spouse
- Shehret Feza Hanim Jananiyar Hanim Jeshm Afet Hanim Shafaq Nur Hanim Gulhiste Hanim Gulendam Hanim Nur Felek Qadin Misl Melek Qadin Jihan Shah Qadin Bezmi Alem Qadin Hur Jenan Qadin Jamal Nur Qadin Ferial Qadin Misl Jihan Qadin Neshedil Qadin Felek Naz Qadin
- House
- Alawiyya
- Father
- Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt
- Mother
- Hoshiyar Qadin
- Religion
- Sunni Islam
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ismail
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ottoman Empire
- Place of birth
- Cairo
- Place of death
- Istanbul
- Spouse
- Shehret Feza Hanim
- Child
- Fatma Ismail
- Father
- Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt
- Mother
- Hoshiyar Qadin
- Occupation
- writer
- Position held
- khedive
- Languages spoken
- Turkish
- Native language
- Arabic
- Religion
- Islam
- Family
- Muhammad Ali dynasty
- Image
- Isma'il Pasha.jpg
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- Commons category
- Isma'il Pasha
- date of birth
- 1831-12-31
- date of death
- 1895-03-02
- place of burial
- Al-Rifa'i Mosque
- name in native language
- إسماعيل باشا
- writing language
- Ottoman Turkish
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Encyclopedic overview
Isma'il Pasha (Arabic: إسماعيل باشا Ismā‘īl Bāshā; 25 November 1830 or 31 December 1830 – 2 March 1895), also known as Ismail the Magnificent, was the Khedive of Egypt and ruler of Sudan from 1863 to 1879, when he was removed at the behest of Great Britain and France. Sharing the ambitious outlook of his grandfather, Muhammad Ali Pasha, he greatly modernized Egypt and Sudan during his reign, investing heavily in industrial and economic development, urbanization, and the expansion of the country's boundaries in Africa.
His philosophy can be glimpsed in a statement that he made in 1879: "My country is no longer only in Africa; we are now part of Europe, too. It is therefore natural for us to abandon our former ways and to adopt a new system adapted to our social conditions".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Isma'il Pasha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.