Shivakiar Ibrahim

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Shivakiar Ibrahim
Shivakiar Ibrahim with her first husband King Fu'ad I.
Her tomb in the Hosch al-Bascha cemetery

Shivakiar Ibrahim , also Shivakiar Khanum Effendi , (born October 25, 1876 in Üsküdar ; died February 17, 1947 in Cairo ) was the first wife of the Egyptian King Fu'ad I. After her divorce from him, she entered into four other marriages .

biography

Family background

Shivakiar Ibrahim was the only daughter of Vijdan Navjuvan Khanum and her husband, Field Marshal Ibrahim Fahmi Ahmad Pasha. The mother was of Circassian origin. She had two brothers, Ahmad Saif ud-Din Ibrahim Bey and Muhammad Vahid ud-Din Ibrahim Bey. The parents' marriage ended in divorce and the mother's second marriage was Faridun Pasha, an officer in the Ottoman army .

Life and marriages

On May 30, 1895 , Shivakiar Ibrahim married her great cousin Ahmad Fuad, who became King of Egypt in 1917. She gave birth to a son, Ismail Fu'ad, who died shortly after birth, and a daughter, Fawkia. In May 1898 she got divorced. During an altercation, her brother shot Fu'ad, who was hit in the throat. Fu'ad survived but retained a scar.

In her second marriage, Shivakiar Ibrahim was married to Abdul Rauf Sabit, with whom she had a daughter and a son. In 1903 she divorced and married Saifullah Yusri Pasha the following year, to whom she also gave birth to a daughter and a son. This marriage ended in divorce in 1916. In her fourth marriage she married Muhammad Salim Khalil Bey Demirkan on July 5, 1917, with whom she had another son, Muhammad Vahid ud-din Khalil; so in total she had four sons and three daughters. She divorced Demirkan in 1925. Her last marriage was on July 1, 1927 with Ilhami Husain Pasha.

In her later years, Shivakiar Ibrahim was President of the Muhammad Ali Benevolent Society and the Mar'al-Guedida Society , which trained girls in various professions, especially as nurses and tailors. The splendid societies she organized were famous . She wrote several books, including Mon pays: la renovation de l'Egypte, Mohammed Aly . After inheriting from her brother Ahmad, she moved to a palace opposite the parliament building. There she kept an " ancestral gallery " with busts of all Egyptian viceroys up to King Faruq , the last ruler of the dynasty of Muhammad Ali .

Shivakiar Ibrahim died on February 17, 1947 in the Kasr al-Aali Palace in Cairo and was buried in Hosch al-Bascha , the tomb complex of the Muhammad Ali dynasty, on the grounds of the City of the Dead . Her remains lie in an oversized marble bed .

Web links

Commons : Shivakiar Ibrahim  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Christopher Buyers: The Muhammad 'Ali Dynasty - Genealogy. 4dw.net, accessed March 8, 2020 .
  2. ^ A b c d e Reina Lewis / Nancy Micklewright: Gender, Modernity and Liberty: Middle Eastern and Western Women's Writings: A Critical Sourcebook . IBTauris, ISBN 978-1-86064-956-1 , pp. 241 .
  3. ^ Bassil A Mardelli: Middle East Perspectives . iUniverse, ISBN 978-1-4502-1118-5 .
  4. ↑ History and photographs of Muhammad Ali dynasty
  5. ^ Hassan Hassan: In the House of Muhammad Ali: A Family Album, 1805-1952 . American Univ in Cairo Press, 2000, ISBN 978-977-424-554-1 , pp. 57-58 .
  6. ↑ Jayne L. Warner: Cultural Horizons: A festschrift in honor of Talat S. Halman . tape 1 . Syracuse University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-8156-8132-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Ibrahim, Shivakiar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Khanum Effendi, Shivakiar (alternative name); Ibrahim, Şivekâr (Turkish spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first wife of the Egyptian king Fu'ad I.
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Üsküdar
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1947
Place of death Cairo