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Ahmad Rifaat Pasha (8 December 1825 – 15 May 1858) was a member of the
Muhammad Ali dynasty The Muhammad Ali dynasty or the Alawiyya dynasty was the ruling dynasty of Egypt and Sudan from the 19th to the mid-20th century. It is named after its progenitor, the Albanians, Albanian Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Muhammad Ali, regarded as the fou ...
of
Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...
. He was the son of
Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt Ibrahim Pasha ( ''Ibrāhīm Bāshā''; 1789 – 10 November 1848) was an Egyptian general and politician; he was the commander of both the Egyptian and Ottoman armies and the eldest son of Muhammad Ali, the Ottoman Wāli and unrecognized Khedi ...
, and his consort Shivakiar Qadin.


Death

He was
heir presumptive An heir presumptive is the person entitled to inherit a throne, peerage, or other hereditary honour, but whose position can be displaced by the birth of a person with a better claim to the position in question. This is in contrast to an heir app ...
to Sa'id Pasha. However, in 1858, a special train conveying Ahmad Rifaat Pasha was being carried on a
car float A railroad car float or rail barge is a specialised form of Lighter (barge), lighter with railway tracks mounted on its deck used to move rolling stock across water obstacles, or to locations they could not otherwise go. An unpowered barge, it i ...
across the Nile at Kafr el-Zayyat. The train fell off the car float into the river where the prince drowned. Sa'id outlived Ahmad Rifaat until 1863, when he was succeeded by
Isma'il Pasha Isma'il Pasha ( ; 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. Shari ...
.


Family

His consorts were Shams Hanim (died 1891), known as "Princess Ahmad", mother of Ibrahim Fahmi Pasha (1847–1893), Azmraftar Qadin (died 1904), mother of Ahmad Kamal Pasha (1857–1907), Dilbar Jihan Qadin (died 1900), mother of Ayn al-Hayat Ahmad (1858–1910), and Za'faran Qadin, an Abyssinian, and mother of a son and a daughter. His elder son Prince Ibrahim Fahmi was married to Nevjiwan Hanim. She was born in 1857. She was the mother of his sons Princes Ahmed Saif ud-din Ibrahim and Muhammad Wahid ud-din Ibrahim and his daughter Princess Shivakiar Ibrahim. She died in 1940. Another wife was Princess Zainab Hanim. She was the daughter of Khedive Isma'il Pasha and his wife Jananiyar Hanim. They married in 1874. She died a year later in 1875, and he married her younger half-sister Princess Nimetullah Hanim in 1890, Isma'il’s daughter by the concubine Neshedil Qadin. However, the marriage was not consummated. His younger son Prince Ahmed Kamal was married to Nazparwar Hanim. She was the mother of Prince Yusuf Kamal. She died in 1925. Another wife was Princess Jamila Fadila Hanim, daughter of Isma'il Pasha and his concubine Misl Jahan Qadin. They married in 1879. His only daughter, Princess Ayn al-Hayat Ahmad was the first wife of Sultan Hussein Kamel, son of Isma'il Pasha and his concubine Nur Felek Qadin.


Ancestry


See also

*
Muhammad Ali Dynasty The Muhammad Ali dynasty or the Alawiyya dynasty was the ruling dynasty of Egypt and Sudan from the 19th to the mid-20th century. It is named after its progenitor, the Albanians, Albanian Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Muhammad Ali, regarded as the fou ...
* Muhammad Ali Dynasty family tree


References

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