Everything about Abbas I Of Egypt totally explained
Abbas I (
July 1 1813 -
July 16 1854), (
Arabic:
عباس الأول ),
Pasha of
Egypt, was a son of
Tusun Pasha and grandson of
Muhammad Ali, founder of the reigning
dynasty of
Egypt at the time.
He was born in
1813 in
Jeddah and was brought up in Egypt. Being the grandson of
Muhammad Ali, he succeeded his uncle Ibrahim Pasha in ruling Egypt in 1848
As a young man, he fought in
Syria under
Ibrahim Pasha, his real or supposed uncle. The death of Ibrahim in November 1848 made Abbas
regent of Egypt. The following August of 1849, on the death of his grandfather Muhammad Ali (who had been deposed in July 1848 on account of mental weakness), Abbas succeeded to the
pashalik, becoming the
Pasha.
He has been often described as a mere voluptuary, but
Nubar Pasha spoke of him as a true
Turkish gentleman of the "old school". He was seen as a reactionary, morose and taciturn, and spent nearly all his time in his palace. He undid, as far as lay in his power, the works of his grandfather, both good and bad. Among other things he abolished trade
monopolies, closed factories and schools, and reduced the strength of the region's army to 9,000 men.
He was inaccessible to adventurers bent on plundering Egypt of riches, but at the insistence of the
British government, he allowed the construction of a
railway from
Alexandria to
Cairo.
In July 1854 he was murdered in
Benha Palace by two of his slaves, and was later succeeded by his uncle (who was actually younger than him),
Said Pasha.
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