Zeynab Ilhamy (; ; 29 December 1859 – 17 May 1918) was an Egyptian princess and 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 ...

and

Ottoman dynasty The Ottoman dynasty () consisted of the members of the imperial House of Osman (), also known as the Ottomans (). According to Ottoman tradition, the family originated from the Kayı tribe branch of the Oghuz Turks, under the leadership of Os ...

Life

Princess Zeynab Ilhamy was born on 29 December 1859 in

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. She was the second daughter of Lieutenant General Prince

Ibrahim Ilhami Pasha Ibrahim Ilhami Pasha (; 3 January 18369 September 1860) was the only surviving son of Abbas I of Egypt and his wife Mahivech Hanim. Ibrahim Ilhami was circumcised in 1849. In July 1854, following his father Abbas's death, his loyalists unsucces ...

. and Jeshmi Ahu Qadin (died 1905). She was the granddaughter of Khedive Abbas I and

Mahivech Hanim Mahivech Hanim (; ; died 13 November 1889) was the first consort of Abbas I of Egypt (1812-1854), and mother of Ibrahim Ilhami Pasha (1836-1860). Mahivech married Abbas Hilmi, and gave birth to the couple's only child, a son, Prince Ibrahim Hil ...

. She had two sisters, Princess

Emina Ilhamy Emina Ilhamy (; ; 24 May 1858 – 19 June 1931) also Amina Ilhami, was an Egyptian princess and a member of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty. She was the first Khediva of Egypt from 1879 to 1892, as the wife of Khedive Tewfik Pasha. After the death ...

and Princess Tevhide Ilhamy. In 1878, Zeynab married her father's cousin Prince Mahmud Hamdi Pasha fifth son of

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 ...

and Jahan Shah Qadin. The couple had one daughter, who was named Princess Munira Hamdi, born in 1884. The two divorced in 1888.

Death

Zeynab died at Cairo on 17 May 1918, and was buried Hosh al-Basha, Imam al-Shafi'i, Cairo.

Issue

Zeynab and Mahmud Hamdi had one daughter: *Princess Munira Hamdi (18 July 1884,

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— 18 November 1944 -

), married

Mohamed Tawfik Naseem Pasha Mohamed Tawfik Naseem Pasha GCMG (; June 30, 1871 – March 8, 1938) was an Egyptian political figure of Turkish origin. He served as the prime minister of Egypt between May 1920 and 1921, again from 1922 until 1923, and finally between 1934 an ...

;

Ancestry

References

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