Fatima el-Sharif
Fatima el-Sharif ( Arabic فاطمة الشريف, DMG Fāṭima aš-Šarīf ), after her marriage Fatima as-Senussi , or Fatima Al-Shifa Al-Sinousi (* 1911 in the Kufra oasis , Libya ; † October 3, 2009 in Cairo , Egypt ) was the wife of King Idris I. Queen of Libya from 1951 to 1969 .
Life
Fatima el-Sharif was born in 1911 as the fifth daughter of Ahmed Sharif es Senussi (1875-1933). Her exact date of birth is unknown. Her father was the former head of the Senussi Order and participated in the resistance against the Italian occupation of Libya during the colonial period . In 1929 the family had to flee to Egypt from the Italians. In 1931, she married Muhammad Idris al-Senussi, who later became King Idris I, in the Siwa oasis . The couple's only child, a son, died in 1953 the day after his birth.
With her husband's coronation as King of Libya in 1951, Fatima became Queen of Libya. In 1954 there was a conflict with her husband when her nephew murdered the advisor to King Ibrahim al-Shelhi who, according to rumors, wanted to convince Idris I to marry his own daughter. Idris then ordered his wife's nephew to be executed. When the king subsequently gave in to pressure to marry additional women in order to procreate royal offspring, Fatima proposed two candidates. Idris chose neither of the two, however, but the Egyptian Alia Abdel Kader Lamloum , whom he married in 1955. Queen Fatima refused to move out of the royal palace in Tobruk and was reconciled with Idris after a few months. The couple subsequently had several foster children and adopted their daughter Suleima.
Queen Fatima supported her husband in public and became the role model for Libyan women. She did not wear a veil and, as the queen, played an active role in society, where she regularly attended public events.
At the time of Muammar al-Gaddafi's coup in 1969, Fatima was in Turkey with her husband . The couple then moved into exile in Cairo. She was sentenced in absentia to five years' imprisonment and confiscation of her property by a Libyan Revolutionary Court in November 1971. In 2007 she got a house back in Tripoli . She died on October 3, 2009 at the age of 98 in her Cairo home.
Web links
- Obituary on the Times website (accessed February 28, 2011)
- Fatima of Libya on findagrave.com (accessed February 28, 2011)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biodata ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Family Troubles , Time Magazine, 1955
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fatima el-Sharif |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fatima of Libya; Fatima as-Senussi; Fatima Al-Shifa Al-Sinousi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Libyan queen (1951–1969) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kufra oases , Libya |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 3, 2009 |
| Place of death | Cairo , Egypt |