Muhammad Said

Muhammad Said (photo by the French photographer Nadar 1855)

Muhammad Said ( Arabic محمد سعيد باشا, DMG Muḥammad Saʿīd Bāšā ; * March 17, 1822 in Cairo ; † January 18, 1863 in Alexandria ) was hereditary Wali (governor) of Egypt from the dynasty of Muhammad Ali from 1854 to 1863 .

Life

Muhammad Said was born in 1822 to Muhammad Ali Pasha . In 1854, after the death of his nephew Abbas I , he took over the government. Under him, the monopolies in the economy were abolished and the tax system changed from contributions in kind to a monetary tax. With the approval of private land ownership, however, the formation of large estates was encouraged. The economic reforms generally contributed to the fact that the European influence on the Egyptian economy increased strongly. Since 1860 there was an export boom for Egyptian cotton after the European industry was no longer able to obtain its cotton imports from the southern states of the USA because of the American Civil War .

Said agreed to the construction of the Suez Canal between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea . In 1859 construction work began by a European-Egyptian consortium, the Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez . The Mediterranean port of Port Said , at the northern end of the Suez Canal, bears his name today.

He died in 1863. He was succeeded by Ismail Pasha .

progeny

Said had three sons. The son Ahmed Sharif Pasha from his first wife Angie Hanimv and two others from his second wife. One of them died in 1846 as a young Mahmoud. His son Muhammad Toson (April 30, 1853 - July 10, 1876) was the Egyptian Minister of the Navy.

Web links

Commons : Muhammad Said - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

↑ Interview by Sascha Priester with Hussein Toussoun : Everything happened on our doorstep ... , PM History No. 10/2007, pp. 76–79.

predecessor	Office	successor
Abbas I.	Wali of Egypt 1854–1863	Ismail Pasha

personal data
SURNAME	Said, Muhammad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Wali of Egypt
DATE OF BIRTH	March 17, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cairo
DATE OF DEATH	January 18, 1863
Place of death	Alexandria

[1] Interview by Sascha Priester with Hussein Toussoun : Everything happened on our doorstep ... , PM History No. 10/2007, pp. 76–79.