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Khedive Ismail Ibrahim Muhammed Ali
I decided to research about Khedive Ismail as it will be a great chance for me to know more about the history of my country that I know a few about. It is not closely related to my project. The idea of building a National Library in Cairo was ordered by Khedive Ismail with the contribution of Ali Pasha Mubarak.
Muhammad Ali came right after the Mamluk were weakened. They were from the Ottoman Empire which is Turkey. Khedive Ismail was born in Al Musafir Khana Palace in Cairo. He was the second of three sons of Ibrahim Pasha, the grandson of the Albanian General Muhammad Ali, who was the founder of the Egyptian royal dynasty. He was the son of Hoshiar who is Ibrahim Pasha's third wife. She was reportedly a sister of Valide Sultan Pertevniyal (1812–1883). Pertevniyal was a wife of Mahmud II of the Ottoman Empire and mother of Abdülaziz I. He was born on 31 December 1830 and died on 2 March 1895 in Istanbul (wikipedia).
He studied in Paris and went on diplomatic missions in Europe before he ruled. He travelled to Constantinople and received the title of Pasha there (Larousse). At the beginning he was a member of the Egyptian State Council, then he became the head body of 14000 men with the title of General in Chief of the Egyptian Army. In 1855 he was a commissioner to France and the Pope of Rome (The New York Times 1895). On his way back to Egypt, he became a member of the State Council, and was given charge of the government while Said Pasha was visiting Asia and Europe in 1861 (Larousse). After the death of Said Pasha in 1863, Ismail became the Wali without opposition. He was the Wali till 1867 and a Khedive from 1867 till 1879 (The New York Times 1895).
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