Mohamed Sherif | |
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محمد شريف | |
 Sherif in 1850 | |
| 3rd Prime Minister of Egypt | |
| In office 7 April 1879 – 18 August 1879 | |
| Monarchs | Isma'il Pasha Tewfik Pasha |
| Preceded by | Tewfik Pasha |
| Succeeded by | Tewfik Pasha |
| In office 14 September 1881 – 4 February 1882 | |
| Monarch | Tewfik Pasha |
| Preceded by | Riaz Pasha |
| Succeeded by | Mahmoud Samy el-Baroudy |
| In office 21 August 1882 – 7 January 1884 | |
| Monarch | Tewfik Pasha |
| Preceded by | Isma'il Raghib Pasha |
| Succeeded by | Nubar Pasha |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 1826 Kavala,Rumelia Eyalet, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 20 April 1887(aged 61) Graz, Austria-Hungary |
| Spouse | Nazli al-Faransawi Hanim |
| Children | Tawfika Sherif Hanim (wife ofAbdel Rahim Sabri Pasha, Governor of Cairo) |
| Parent(s) | Muhammad Said,Kadi ofMecca |
Mohamed Sherif PashaGCSI[citation needed] (February 1826 – 20 April 1887) (Arabic:محمد شريف باشا) was an Egyptian statesman.[1] He served asPrime Minister of Egypt three times during his career. His first term was between 7 April 1879 and 18 August 1879. His second term was served from 14 September 1881 to 4 February 1882. His final term was served between 21 August 1882 and 7 January 1884.
Sherif, who was aTurk fromKavala in theOttoman Empire (now in northernGreece),[1] filled numerous administrative posts underSa'id Pasha andIsma'il Pasha. He was better educated than most of his contemporaries, and had married Nazli al-Faransawi Hanim, a daughter of Colonel Joseph Anthelme Sèves, the French non-commissioned officer who becameSuleiman Pasha underMehmet Ali, and wife Maria Myriam Hanem.[2] They were the maternal grandparents ofQueen consortNazli of Egypt andRegentSherif Sabri Pasha.[3]
As minister of foreign affairs he was useful to Ismail, who used Sherif's bluff bonhomie to veil many of his most insidious proposals. Of singularly lazy disposition, he yet possessed considerable tact; he was in fact an EgyptianLord Melbourne, whose policy was to leave everything alone.[2]
Sherif's favorite argument against any reform was to appeal to thePyramids as an immutable proof of the solidity of Egypt financially and politically. His fatal optimism rendered him largely responsible for the collapse of Egyptian credit which brought about the fall of Ismail.[2]
Upon the military insurrection of September 1881 underUrabi Pasha, Sherif was summoned by the khediveTawfiq to form a new ministry. The impossibility of reconciling the financial requirements of the national party with the demands of the British and French controllers of the public debt, compelled him to resign in the following February.[2]
After the suppression of theUrabi Revolt he was again installed in office (August 1882) by Tawfiq, but in January 1884 he resigned rather than sanction the evacuation of the Sudanese regions of theKhedivate of Egypt. As to the strength of theMahdist movement he had then no conception. When urged by SirEvelyn Baring (Lord Cromer) early in 1883 to abandon some of the more distant parts of the Sudan, he replied with characteristic light-heartedness: "Nous en causerons plus tard; d'abord nous allons donner une bonne raclée à ce monsieur" (We'll talk about that later, first we're going to give this gentleman (i.e. the self declared Mahdi,Muhammad Ahmad) a good thrashing).Hicks Pasha's expedition was at the time preparing to march onEl Obeid.[2]
Sherif died inGraz,Austria-Hungary, on 20 April 1887.
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sherif Pasha".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 850.Sulaiman Pasha made an eccentric figure ... Born in Lyon in 1788, he lived to the age of seventy-two with his favouriteGreek mistress, dying in Cairo on 12 March 1860. His daughter, Nazli Hanem, marriedMuhammad Sherif Pasha, who was to become an important prime minister under Ismail. Their granddaughter, the beautiful, domineeringNazli Sabri, was to marryKing Fouad and give birth to the last of the dynasty,King Farouk.
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by | Prime Minister of Egypt 1879 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Prime Minister of Egypt 1881–1882 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Prime Minister of Egypt 1882–1884 | Succeeded by |
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