Abaza family

Sources indicate that the Abaza family was well established in the Nile Delta by the late 18th century, especially in their stronghold, Sharqia.{{cite book |last1=Sayyid-Marsot |first1=Afaf Lutfi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KCz7N-GYKRcC&q=Abaza+Family%2C+Egypt&pg=PA123 |title=Egypt in the Reign of Muhammad Ali |date=January 12, 1984 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-28968-9 |page=123 |access-date=6 December 2016 |archive-date=24 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224093442/https://books.google.com/books?id=KCz7N-GYKRcC&q=Abaza+Family%2C+Egypt&pg=PA123#v=snippet&q=Abaza%20Family%2C%20Egypt&f=false |url-status=live }}

Historian al-Sayyid-Marsot states that the Abaza family were named after "a beloved grandmother ... or her place of birth". This maternal ancestor married the head of the powerful al-Ayed family ({{Langx|ar|العائد}}; {{Langx|arz|العايدي|translit=al-Ayedi}}) before the reign of Muhammad Ali of Egypt. The marriage took place during the reign of the Mamluks{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2t--alsT9kC&dq=abaza+family+egypt&pg=PA51 |isbn=978-1-134-26821-4 | title=The Pasha's Bedouin: Tribes and State in the Egypt of Mehemet Ali, 1805-1848 | date=12 March 2007 | publisher=Routledge | access-date=25 February 2024 | archive-date=27 February 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240227193644/https://books.google.com/books?id=b2t--alsT9kC&dq=abaza+family+egypt&pg=PA51 | url-status=live }} and "under Ottoman rule".{{Cite web |date=2022-01-09 |title=العائلة الأباظية ودورها فى الحياة البرلمانية المصرية |url=https://www.elaosboa.com/126979/ |access-date=2025-02-01 |website=الأسبوع |language=ar}}^{[note 1]}

File:Abaza Family Elders at their palace in Sharqia شيوخ عائلة الأباظة في قصرهم بالشرقية.jpg]]

David E. Millis writes of the Abaza family's marriage with the al-Ayed clan reporting that the latter's history in Egypt spans 1400 years.{{Cite book |last=Mills |first=David E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pGpjEAAAQBAJ&dq=abaza+family+egypt&pg=PT75 |title=Dividing the Nile: Egypt's Economic Nationalists in the Sudan 1918-56 |date=2014-12-01 |publisher=American University in Cairo Press |isbn=978-1-61797-619-3 |language=en}} He states al-Ayed trace "their origin back to the Yemenese contingents of the initial Islamic conquerors of Egypt [639-642 AD] ... [and] the ancient tribal confederation of Judham".{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pGpjEAAAQBAJ&dq=abaza+family+egypt&pg=PT75 |isbn=978-1-61797-619-3 | title=Dividing the Nile: Egypt's Economic Nationalists in the Sudan 1918-56 | date=December 2014 | publisher=American University in Cairo Press | access-date=25 February 2024 | archive-date=29 February 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229144729/https://books.google.com/books?id=pGpjEAAAQBAJ&dq=abaza+family+egypt&pg=PT75 | url-status=live }} Ibn Khaldun wrote that Banu Judham originate from Kahlan.{{cite web|url=https://www.hindawi.org/books/96283142/3/|title=الأسرة الأباظية {{pipe}} السودان من التاريخ القديم إلى رحلة البعثة المصرية (الجزء الثالث) {{pipe}} مؤسسة هنداوي|access-date=22 February 2024|archive-date=22 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240222221902/https://www.hindawi.org/books/96283142/3/|url-status=live}} Historian al-Maqrizi agrees that al-Ayed descend from Banu Judham.

The non-Abaza patriarch who married the Abazin matriarch was Sheikh Muhammed al-Ayedi ({{Langx|arz|الشيخ محمد العايدي|links=no}}).

Al-Sayyid-Marsot reports that the Abaza family had "long-established economic and political clout in Egypt".{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pGpjEAAAQBAJ&dq=abaza+family+egypt&pg=PT75 |isbn=978-1-61797-619-3 | title=Dividing the Nile: Egypt's Economic Nationalists in the Sudan 1918-56 | date=December 2014 | publisher=American University in Cairo Press | access-date=25 February 2024 | archive-date=29 February 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229144729/https://books.google.com/books?id=pGpjEAAAQBAJ&dq=abaza+family+egypt&pg=PT75 | url-status=live }}{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2t--alsT9kC&dq=abaza+family+egypt&pg=PA51 |isbn=978-1-134-26821-4 | title=The Pasha's Bedouin: Tribes and State in the Egypt of Mehemet Ali, 1805-1848 | date=12 March 2007 | publisher=Routledge | access-date=25 February 2024 | archive-date=27 February 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240227193644/https://books.google.com/books?id=b2t--alsT9kC&dq=abaza+family+egypt&pg=PA51 | url-status=live }}

File:Abaza country in north cacuasus locator map.svg distribution of Abazins in the North Caucasus, and modern Abaza district (crimson borders). Probable origin of the family's matriarch, who went to Egypt before the genocide.]]

Historians document that with time people started to "distinguish between Awlad al-Aydeh [Children of al-Aydeh] and Awlad al-Abazyya [Children of the Abaza Lady]" and her eldest son began to be called "Ibn al-Abazyya [Son of the Abaza Lady]". This was "the beginning of the split between the two groups" into two distinct families or clans.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2t--alsT9kC&dq=abaza+family+egypt&pg=PA51 |isbn=978-1-134-26821-4 | title=The Pasha's Bedouin: Tribes and State in the Egypt of Mehemet Ali, 1805-1848 | date=12 March 2007 | publisher=Routledge | access-date=25 February 2024 | archive-date=27 February 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240227193644/https://books.google.com/books?id=b2t--alsT9kC&dq=abaza+family+egypt&pg=PA51 | url-status=live }}

Thus, the initial matriarchal founder of the family is only known as 'Abaza', and her personal name is lost to history. It is rare but not unknown for a Muslim family to be named after a woman but the family's name fits with Muslim practices of naming people and families after places of origin or ethnicities.{{Cite journal |last=Mohammadi |first=Adeel |date=2016 |title=The Ambiguity of Maternal Filiation (nasab) in Early and Medieval Islam |url=https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/hdsjournal/ambiguity-maternal-filiation-nasab-early-and-medieval-islam |journal=The Graduate Journal of Harvard Divinity School |issue=11 |pages=52–68 |access-date=3 February 2024 |archive-date=14 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230114233516/https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/hdsjournal/ambiguity-maternal-filiation-nasab-early-and-medieval-islam |url-status=live }}Pedzisai Mashiri, [http://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/African%20Journals/pdfs/Journal%20of%20the%20University%20of%20Zimbabwe/vol26n1/juz026001007.pdf "Terms of Address in Shona: A Sociolinguistic Approach"], Zambezia, XXVI (i), pp. 93–110, 1999

It is an example of a laqab, a type of Arabic name, and of an ethnonym, the name of a people or ethnic group.

Some intermarriage with the ruling Turkish elite in Egypt is also reported. Of their Abazin Circassian roots one scholar remarks that "the Abazas remain notoriously blonde and pink-cheeked, a living proof of continued Circassian and Turkish intermarriage." They are also noted for extensive intermarrying with fellow elite families: "The Abazinians in Egypt have managed to become part of Egypt's elite. For many generations they have inter-married with the movers and shakers of Egypt".{{Cite web |title=Abaza, Arabized in Egypt Profile |url=https://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/print/10125/EG |access-date=2024-11-04 |website=joshuaproject.net}}

Historian Robert Springborg documents that Abazas in Egypt are "virtually all descendants" of 19th century figures like Sheikh of the Arabs Hassan Abaza and his brother Sheikh Boghdady Abaza and "they maybe considered as constituting one family".

File:Aziz_Pasha_Abaza_عزيز_باشا_أباظة.jpg, poet and governor of Al Qalyoubiya, Faiyum and the Suez Canal Zone]]

Reuven Aharoni in his historical study of Egypt under the Muhammad Ali dynasty discusses the Abaza family's rise. He states that despite the "centralized nature of Muhammed Ali's regime", the integration of local elites in the state's administration was part of his governing policy. The provincial elites were "given lands" integrating the new system with existing "local interests" and documents that "one instance of this" was the Abaza family.{{Cite book |last=Aharoni |first=Reuven |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2t--alsT9kC&dq=abaza+family+egypt&pg=PA51 |title=The Pasha's Bedouin: Tribes and State in the Egypt of Mehemet Ali, 1805-1848 |date=2007-03-12 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-26821-4 |language=en |access-date=29 February 2024 |archive-date=14 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240214011632/https://books.google.com/books?id=b2t--alsT9kC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA51&dq=abaza+family+egypt&hl=en |url-status=live }}

Hassan Abaza is widely considered to be the modern founding father of the family due to heading the family at the time of their modern ascendance. He was called "Sheikh of the Arabs".

Relatively rare in this exalted long-form, it derives from the ancient honorific title 'Sheikh' given to a variety of people including the heads of sufficiently influential families or tribes regardless of ethnic origin.{{Cite web |date=2024-01-25 |title=Sheikh {{!}} Meaning, Title, Significance, & History {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/sheikh |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en |archive-date=19 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240119214655/https://www.britannica.com/topic/sheikh |url-status=live }} Aharoni reports that Hassan Abaza was also the Shiekh el Balad [Sheikh of the Province or "chief of the city"] of the province of Sharqia.{{Cite web |title=Shaykh al-balad {{!}} Egyptian official {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/shaykh-al-balad |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en |archive-date=11 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231211040026/https://www.britannica.com/topic/shaykh-al-balad |url-status=live }}{{Citation |title=Arabia, Arabs, and "Arabic" in Greek Documents from Egypt |date=2017-01-01 |work=New Frontiers of Arabic Papyrology |pages=1–27 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004345171_002 |access-date=2024-03-03 |publisher=BRILL|doi=10.1163/9789004345171_002 |isbn=978-90-04-34513-3 |last1=De Jong |first1=Janneke |url-access=subscription }}{{Cite book |last=Aharoni |first=Reuven |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2t--alsT9kC&dq=abaza+family+egypt&pg=PA51 |title=The Pasha's Bedouin: Tribes and State in the Egypt of Mehemet Ali, 1805-1848 |date=2007-03-12 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-26821-4 |language=en |access-date=29 February 2024 |archive-date=14 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240214011632/https://books.google.com/books?id=b2t--alsT9kC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA51&dq=abaza+family+egypt&hl=en |url-status=live }}

Hassan Abaza " served in higher positions than that of village shaikh, for he became nazir, then mamur, then bash [Pasha] muawin of the provinces of Sharqiyya and Daqahliyya", two of the multiple provinces Abazas governed again in the following centuries.

Hassan and his brother, Sheikh Boghdady Abaza, "served in Ibrahim Pasha's Majlis" making the Abazas the only family to hold two seats at the same time and starting their tradition as a parliamentary dynasty.

Aharoni further documents that the monarchy allowed in certain instances elites "bequeath their posts to their sons". The Abaza family is recorded as a notable instance of this, for example, al-Sayed Pasha Abaza "inherited the position of nizar qism from "his father Hassan Abaza".{{Cite book |last=Aharoni |first=Reuven |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2t--alsT9kC&dq=abaza+family+egypt&pg=PA51 |title=The Pasha's Bedouin: Tribes and State in the Egypt of Mehemet Ali, 1805-1848 |date=2007-03-12 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-26821-4 |language=en |access-date=29 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240214011632/https://books.google.com/books?id=b2t--alsT9kC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA51&dq=abaza+family+egypt&hl=en |archive-date=14 February 2024 |url-status=live}}

The monarchy endowed the family with more villages and lands allowing the Abazas to flourish.

Their lands extended beyond their Sharqia stronghold to the Beheira Governate. For example, "Sayed Pasha Abaza mudir [governor] of Beheira Province left some 6,000 feddan [6227 acres]....in 1875-1876" to his descendants.{{Cite book |last=Springborg |first=Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8VIrEAAAQBAJ&dq=hassan+abaza+egypt&pg=PA92 |title=Family, Power, and Politics in Egypt: Sayed Bey Mare--His Clan, Clients, and Cohorts |date=2016-11-11 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=978-1-5128-0754-7 |language=en |access-date=29 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229144722/https://books.google.com/books?id=8VIrEAAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA92&dq=hassan+abaza+egypt&hl=en |archive-date=29 February 2024 |url-status=live}}

Their influence further extended to the Nile Delta provinces of Al-Qalyubia, Monufia, and Dakahlia.{{Cite web |title=العائلة الأباظية ودورها فى الحياة البرلمانية المصرية |url=https://www.elaosboa.com/126979/ |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=الأسبوع |date=9 January 2022 |language=ar |archive-date=21 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221102718/https://www.elaosboa.com/126979/ |url-status=live }}

It has been argued that Ismail Pasha Abaza was a precursor and "rehearsal" for Ahmed Urabi Pasha, the revolutionary Egyptian leader, due to his "[having] the first positive and effective political role [in anti-occupation politics] ...[with] great importance and relevance to the burgeoning national movement" and by having influential and "good relations with [royal ruler] Khedive Abbas Helmi" of Egypt. This was also documented in the memoirs of Ahmed Urabi Pasha.{{Cite web |last=الجوادي |first=د محمد |title=هل كان إسماعيل أباظة بروفة مبكرة لزعامة سعد زغلول باشا؟ |url=https://www.aljazeera.net/blogs/2019/11/12/%d9%87%d9%84-%d9%83%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%a5%d8%b3%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%b9%d9%8a%d9%84-%d8%a3%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b8%d8%a9-%d8%a8%d8%b1%d9%88%d9%81%d8%a9-%d9%85%d8%a8%d9%83%d8%b1%d8%a9 |access-date=2024-04-02 |website=الجزيرة نت |language=ar |archive-date=2 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240402001010/https://www.aljazeera.net/blogs/2019/11/12/%d9%87%d9%84-%d9%83%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%a5%d8%b3%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%b9%d9%8a%d9%84-%d8%a3%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b8%d8%a9-%d8%a8%d8%b1%d9%88%d9%81%d8%a9-%d9%85%d8%a8%d9%83%d8%b1%d8%a9 |url-status=live }}

Additionally, Ismail Pasha Abaza "believed he could secure national rights" through negotiation with the British and went to England to attempt this.File:Fekry_Abaza.jpg, known as the 'Shiekh of Journalism' and head of the Journalists' Syndicate{{Cite web |date=2019-12-10 |title=DNB, Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek |url=https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=nid=118873814 |access-date=2024-03-31 |archive-date=10 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191210110116/https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=nid=118873814 |url-status=bot: unknown }}]]

A famous display of their clout was during the accession of the young King Farouk, when the Abaza family "solicited palace authorities to permit the royal train to stop briefly at one of their villages", so that "the king could partake in refreshments which were offered in a large, magnificently ornamented tent they had erected at the train station".Yunan Labib Rizk, [http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/762/chrncls.htm "The making of a king"], {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080814035001/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/762/chrncls.htm |date=2008-08-14 }}, Al-Ahram Weekly 762, 29 September – 5 October 2005.{{Cite book |last=Rosten |first=David B. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z7guCwAAQBAJ&dq=abaza+family+egypt&pg=PT126 |title=The Last Cheetah of Egypt: A Narrative History of Egyptian Royalty from 1805 to 1953 |date=2015-12-03 |publisher=iUniverse |isbn=978-1-4917-7939-2 |language=en |access-date=29 February 2024 |archive-date=14 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240214011816/https://books.google.com/books?id=Z7guCwAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PT126&dq=abaza+family+egypt&hl=en |url-status=live }}

After the 1952 removal of King Farouk of Egypt, several Abazas lost feudal lands following the Egyptian land reform.{{Cite book |last=Springborg |first=Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8VIrEAAAQBAJ&dq=hassan+abaza+egypt&pg=PA92 |title=Family, Power, and Politics in Egypt: Sayed Bey Mare--His Clan, Clients, and Cohorts |date=2016-11-11 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=978-1-5128-0754-7 |language=en |access-date=29 February 2024 |archive-date=29 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229144722/https://books.google.com/books?id=8VIrEAAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA92&dq=hassan+abaza+egypt&hl=en |url-status=live }}

The family is not associated with a single political stance as in the early 20th century it decided to allow all members to hold any political position and run for office with any party with the caveat that "no two Abazas [can] run against each other".

During the CBC Two program where this was discussed, Mahmoud Abaza, opposition leader under Mubarak's regime, clarified that in the rare cases where two Abazas ran in an election against each other the apparent rule is "to put all support behind the stronger [candidate]" and that "no other rules exist".

This led to situations where one Abaza was a minister in the governing regime and another was Mahmoud Abaza as opposition leader (see below).

Anti-feudal and anti-classist politics also exists within the family. Perhaps the most thorough example is a book by Mona Abaza, a prominent Egyptian sociologist.{{Cite book |last=Abaza |first=Mona |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xRknDAAAQBAJ |title=The Cotton Plantation Remembered: An Egyptian Family Story |date=2013 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-977-416-571-9 |language=en}} In her lengthy scholarly ethnographic study of her family's feudal estate she is explicit about her experience of how ordinary farmers treated members of the family writing critically that she was "astonish[ed] at ...[a] peasant’s extraordinarily subservient behavior to a fifteen-year-old girl... no peasant in older times was allowed to stare at the ladies of the da’ira [the estate], or even to confront them face to face... all the ladies of the da’ira had to be addressed in the masculine as a sign of their superiority."{{Cite book |last=Abaza |first=Mona |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xRknDAAAQBAJ |title=The Cotton Plantation Remembered: An Egyptian Family Story |date=2013 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-977-416-571-9 |language=en}}

She also documented at length the nature of the production process standard at the time in large aristocratic estates with documentation that "reveal an incredible obsession [for] controlling...[in] a highly stratified... pyramidal order".{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc2g3GmMIps |title=Mona Abaza tells of her family's cotton plantation in the Nile Delta |date=2013-04-11 |last=The American University in Cairo Press |access-date=2024-10-09 |via=YouTube}}

The family had its own football team competing with Egypt's major clubs in the early half of the 20th century and its own journal.{{Cite book |last=Ryzova |first=Lucie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PhJbDwAAQBAJ&dq=abaza+family+egypt&pg=PT280 |title=The Age of the Efendiyya: Passages to Modernity in National-Colonial Egypt |date=2017-09-18 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-256373-6 |language=en |access-date=29 February 2024 |archive-date=14 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240214011809/https://books.google.com/books?id=PhJbDwAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PT280&dq=abaza+family+egypt&hl=en |url-status=live }} Their most famous wins were covered in English media in 1916 and 1917 with two reported wins against Qatar.{{Cite web |title=Hindawi |url=https://www.hindawi.org/books/96283142/3/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240222221902/https://www.hindawi.org/books/96283142/3/ |archive-date=22 February 2024 |access-date=29 February 2024}}

A lentil dish attributed to the family is known in the country as {{"'}}ads abazy" ({{langx|ar|عدس أباظي}}).{{Cite news |title=طريقة عمل عدس أباظة |url=https://mawdoo3.com/%D8%B7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%82%D8%A9_%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%84_%D8%B9%D8%AF%D8%B3_%D8%A3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B8%D8%A9 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203033305/https://mawdoo3.com/%D8%B7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%82%D8%A9_%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%84_%D8%B9%D8%AF%D8%B3_%D8%A3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B8%D8%A9 |archive-date=3 February 2024 |accessdate=16 February 2024 |website=موضوع}}

The family has had members in almost every Egyptian parliament,{{Cite news |date=2015-08-29 |title=أشهر العائلات تحت قبة البرلمان.. "أباظة" و"محيى الدين" و"سراج الدين" بدأت الطريق منذ نشأة مجلس النواب.. و"طلعت مصطفى" و"السادات" تتطلعان لاستكمال مسيرة الآباء |url=https://www.youm7.com/story/2015/8/29/%D8%A3%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AA-%D9%82%D8%A8%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B8%D8%A9-%D9%88-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%8A%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86-%D9%88/2324875 |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=اليوم السابع |language=ar |archive-date=21 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221102718/https://www.youm7.com/story/2015/8/29/%D8%A3%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AA-%D9%82%D8%A8%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B8%D8%A9-%D9%88-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%8A%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86-%D9%88/2324875 |url-status=live }} mostly in Sharqia districts, their original historical stronghold. A famous 21st-century election included the family's 2005 winning challenge to Gamal Mubarak's and the Mubarak regime's candidate in a Sharqia district with the former New Wafd Party opposition leader Mahmoud Abaza.{{cite news |last1=Jamal |first1=Mohammed |date=October 18, 2015 |title=Vote for the "Family" The major features of the first day of elections |url=http://www.huffpostarabi.com/2015/10/18/story_n_8325272.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304090712/http://www.huffpostarabi.com/2015/10/18/story_n_8325272.html |archive-date=4 March 2016 |access-date=6 December 2016 |language=ar |agency=Huffington Post Arabic}}{{Cite news |date=2015-10-31 |title=عائلة أباظة تتحدى التاريخ |url=http://www.parlmany.com/News/7/7065/%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%A3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B8%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AF%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AE |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=برلمانى |archive-date=21 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221102720/https://www.parlmany.com/News/7/7065/%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%A3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B8%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AF%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AE |url-status=live }}

Family members also regularly feature in Egyptian cabinets and hold minister, deputy minister, assistant minister and other government and technocratic positions in state institutions. As mentioned above, Amin Abaza was a minister at the same time Mahmoud Abaza was the leader of the official opposition during the final Hosni Mubarak government. The family has also held governorships many times in both the monarchical and current periods, especially in the Nile delta but also including the likes of Cairo and the Suez Canal Zone.{{Cite web |title=العائلة الأباظية ودورها فى الحياة البرلمانية المصرية |url=https://www.elaosboa.com/126979/ |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=الأسبوع |date=9 January 2022 |language=ar |archive-date=21 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221102718/https://www.elaosboa.com/126979/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=2015-01-12 |title=ننشر أهم العائلات البرلمانية في الشرقية.. "الأباظية" الأعرق لتأثيرها في الحياة السياسية والفنية والإذاعية.. لم يخل مجلس شعب أو شورى من وجود أحد أفرادها |url=https://www.albawabhnews.com/1046445 |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=www.albawabhnews.com |archive-date=21 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221102718/https://www.albawabhnews.com/1046445 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=2016-02-16 |title=عائلات تحكم مصر.. الأباظية نجم يلمع في عالم السياسية.. التاريخ يتجاهل طوبار الدقهلية.. الهجرة تلقي بسيف النصر في المنيا.. الألفي وخضير ملحمة وطنية ببورسعيد.. ومحمد كريم يرسم ملامح التحرير بالإسكندرية |url=http://www.soutalomma.com/Article/124914/%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%AA%D8%AD%D9%83%D9%85-%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B8%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%85-%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AE |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=صوت الأمة |archive-date=21 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221102719/https://www.soutalomma.com/Article/124914/%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%AA%D8%AD%D9%83%D9%85-%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B8%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%85-%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AE |url-status=live }}

Some Egyptian media in the 21st century have referred to them as one of the "families that rule the country" due to the number of politicians, officials, and members of parliament it produced, and as one of the families that "inherited parliament".{{cite news |last1=Timor |first1=Ahmed |date=January 10, 2016 |title=Month for Families in History of Egyptian Parliament |url=http://www.archivegypt.com/%D8%A3%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%B1-4-%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%81%D9%89-%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AE-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B1%D9%8A/ |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180611223407/http://www.archivegypt.com/%d8%a3%d8%b4%d9%87%d8%b1-4-%d8%b9%d8%a7%d8%a6%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d9%81%d9%89-%d8%aa%d8%a7%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%ae-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8%d8%b1%d9%84%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b5%d8%b1%d9%8a/ |archive-date=11 June 2018 |access-date=5 December 2016 |language=ar |agency=Egyptian families}}{{cite web |title=عائلات ورثت البرلمان |url=https://www.parlmany.com/News/7/5055/%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AB%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221102719/https://www.parlmany.com/News/7/5055/%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AB%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86 |archive-date=21 February 2024 |access-date=21 February 2024}}

As of 2024, General Hani Deri Abaza, Ahmed Fuad Abaza, and Vadji Hussain Abaza are members of the Egyptian House of Representatives.{{Cite web |title=Raouf Abaza about the Abkhaz-Abaza Diaspora of Egypt: we are one big and strong family |url=https://abaza.org/en/raouf-abaza-about-the-abkhaz-abaza-diaspora-of-egypt-we-are-one-big-and-strong-family |access-date=2024-03-03 |website=abaza.org |language=en |archive-date=3 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240303180231/https://abaza.org/en/raouf-abaza-about-the-abkhaz-abaza-diaspora-of-egypt-we-are-one-big-and-strong-family |url-status=live }} In addition, Yousra Fuad Abaza is a member of the Egyptian Senate.{{Cite web |title=عضو بالشيوخ: المشاركة الكبيرة من المواطنين فى الانتخابات الرئاسية نجاح تاريخى لمصر |url=https://www.dostor.org/4580770 |website=Dostor |date=13 December 2023 |access-date=7 March 2024 |archive-date=17 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231217022609/https://www.dostor.org/4580770 |url-status=live }}

Many villages in the Nile Delta are named after members of the family. At least two city squares, in Zagazig and another in Cairo, are named 'Abaza'. Many roads and institutions in the country are named after members of the family for example at least one street and one government school named after Aziz Pasha Abaza and a street named after Ismail Pasha Abaza. In addition, numerous 'ezbas' (farming villages) in the Nile Delta provinces are named after family members.{{Cite web |title=Log in or sign up to view |url=https://www.facebook.com/login/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210806001818/https://www.facebook.com/login/ |archive-date=6 August 2021 |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=www.facebook.com |language=en}}{{Citation |title=ezba |date=2022-08-28 |work=Wiktionary, the free dictionary |url=https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=ezba&oldid=68926083 |access-date=2024-02-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240219192436/https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=ezba&oldid=68926083 |archive-date=19 February 2024 |url-status=live |language=en}}

Forbes lists Hussein Abaza as one of the top Arab CEOs in the world, for heading the Commercial International Bank.{{Cite web |last=Mughal |first=Waqar |title=Hussein Abaza - Top 100 CEOs 2023 in the Middle East |url=https://www.forbesmiddleeast.com/lists/top-100-ceos-2023/hussein-abaza/ |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=Forbes Lists |language=en-US |archive-date=21 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221111618/https://www.forbesmiddleeast.com/lists/top-100-ceos-2023/hussein-abaza/ |url-status=live }}

Another family member, Hussein Mohammed Abaza serves as an international consultant for sustainable development and green economy in the Egyptian government and as an advisor to the Minister of the Environment.{{Cite web |last=عفيفي |first=نرمين |date=2022-08-21 |title=حسين أباظة: الاستثمارات صديقة البيئة ليست عائقا للتنمية |url=https://www.elwatannews.com/news/details/6262240 |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=الوطن |language=ar |archive-date=21 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221110115/https://www.elwatannews.com/news/details/6262240 |url-status=live }} He also is a member of the government's National Initiative for Green Projects.{{Cite web |date=2022-08-10 |title=رسميا.. اختيار حسين أباظة عضوًا للجنة التحكيم بالمبادرة الوطنية للمشروعات الخضراء |url=https://greenfue.com/%d8%b1%d8%b3%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%a7-%d8%a7%d8%ae%d8%aa%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%ad%d8%b3%d9%8a%d9%86-%d8%a3%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b8%d8%a9-%d8%b9%d8%b6%d9%88%d9%8b%d8%a7-%d9%84%d9%84%d8%ac%d9%86%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84/ |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=المستقبل الاخضر |language=ar |archive-date=21 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221110127/https://greenfue.com/%d8%b1%d8%b3%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%a7-%d8%a7%d8%ae%d8%aa%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%ad%d8%b3%d9%8a%d9%86-%d8%a3%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b8%d8%a9-%d8%b9%d8%b6%d9%88%d9%8b%d8%a7-%d9%84%d9%84%d8%ac%d9%86%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84/ |url-status=live }}

Primarily criticism of the family has focused on multi-generational control exerted on various areas which are part of their historical stronghold.

In the 2015 parliamentary elections, three members of the Abaza family won seats in the House of Representatives and this was criticized by some in the media referring to their win as "dynastic heredity".{{cite news |last1=Diab |first1=Goni |date=September 29, 2015 |title=عائلات بارزة تدفع بأبنائها في الانتخابات لحفظ الميراث النيابي |url=http://www.masralarabia.com/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A9/746311-%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%AF%D9%81%D8%B9-%D8%A8%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%87%D8%A7-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%81%D8%B8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AB-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220200724/http://www.masralarabia.com/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A9/746311-%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%AF%D9%81%D8%B9-%D8%A8%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%87%D8%A7-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%81%D8%B8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AB-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A |archive-date=20 February 2019 |access-date=6 December 2016 |language=ar |ref=criticized win |agency=Masral Arabia}} For decades, the family had a political monopoly over several districts. In modern times media has critically remarked that "no parliamentary elections since the reign of Muhammed Ali was free of the Abazas".{{cite news |last1=Timor |first1=Ahmed |date=January 10, 2016 |title=Month for Families in History of Egyptian Parliament |url=http://www.archivegypt.com/%D8%A3%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%B1-4-%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%81%D9%89-%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AE-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B1%D9%8A/ |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180611223407/http://www.archivegypt.com/%d8%a3%d8%b4%d9%87%d8%b1-4-%d8%b9%d8%a7%d8%a6%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d9%81%d9%89-%d8%aa%d8%a7%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%ae-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8%d8%b1%d9%84%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%b5%d8%b1%d9%8a/ |archive-date=11 June 2018 |access-date=5 December 2016 |language=ar |agency=Egyptian families}}{{cite news |last1=Jamal |first1=Mohammed |date=October 18, 2015 |title=Vote for the "Family" The major features of the first day of elections |url=http://www.huffpostarabi.com/2015/10/18/story_n_8325272.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304090712/http://www.huffpostarabi.com/2015/10/18/story_n_8325272.html |archive-date=4 March 2016 |access-date=6 December 2016 |language=ar |agency=Huffington Post Arabic}}{{Cite news |date=2016-03-04 |title=التصويت لـ "العائلة" أبرز ملامح اليوم الأول للانتخابات المصرية |url=http://www.huffpostarabi.com/2015/10/18/story_n_8325272.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304090712/http://www.huffpostarabi.com/2015/10/18/story_n_8325272.html |archive-date=4 March 2016 |access-date=2024-04-21 |newspaper=The Huffington Post}}

In an incident showcasing the ubiquity of the Abaza family's entrenchment in Egyptian institutions, Amin Abaza, Minister of Agriculture under the final Hosni Mubarak government was arrested and tried as part of the mass trials of that government following the 2011 Egyptian revolution.{{Cite web |date=2011-07-03 |title=حبس أمين أباظة وزير الزراعة الأسبق 15 يوماً فى قضية أراضى سيناء |url=https://www.youm7.com/story/2011/7/3/%D8%AD%D8%A8%D8%B3-%D8%A3%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B8%D8%A9-%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B2%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%82-15-%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8B-%D9%81%D9%89-%D9%82%D8%B6%D9%8A%D8%A9/447632 |access-date=2024-12-16 |website=اليوم السابع |language=ar}} As mentioned above, another Abaza was an opposition leader during this government. Initially the public prosecutor who ordered the arrest and is himself married to an Abaza, instituted travel bans on figures associated with the regime and its final cabinet.{{Cite web |date=2014-01-19 |title=مصر: منع سفر عبيد والفقي وحسني و9 رجال أعمال - CNNArabic.com |url=http://arabic.cnn.com/2011/egypt.2011/2/23/egypt.ministers_travel/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140119224802/http://arabic.cnn.com/2011/egypt.2011/2/23/egypt.ministers_travel/index.html |archive-date=19 January 2014 |access-date=2024-12-16}} An appeals court later freed minister Amin Abaza.{{Cite web |date=June 2013 |title=النقض تلغي حكما بالسجن 3 سنوات لأمين أباظة ومنسي |url=https://akhbarelyom.com/news/newdetails/154462/1/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D9%82%D8%B6-%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%BA%D9%8A-%D8%AD%D9%83%D9%85%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%AC%D9%86-3-%D8%B3%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A3%D8%A8%D8%A7 |access-date=2024-12-16 |website=بوابة اخبار اليوم}}

In 2014, the family sued Sada Elbalad TV for the creation of a children's cartoon named 'Abaza', and the program was forced off the air.{{cite news|last1=Shakir|first1=Mustafa|title=Adli Abaza suing the 'echo of the country' due to the series using his family name|url=http://www.albawabhnews.com/672381|language=ar|access-date=6 December 2016|agency=Albawabh News|date=June 7, 2014|archive-date=13 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180513011321/http://www.albawabhnews.com/672381|url-status=live}} In the same year Egyptian satellite channel CBC Two aired a one-hour documentary about the family.{{cite news|title=A meeting with the family, 'Abaza'|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CngWX-wn5U |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/0CngWX-wn5U |archive-date=2021-12-22 |url-status=live|access-date=5 December 2016|agency=CBC Two|date=May 10, 2014}}{{cbignore}}

They are also known for producing many CEOs and owners of businesses and corporations.

Their combined wealth is unknown.

The family features a substantial number of famous or influential members and thus this section will keep to a few examples from the 20th and 21st centuries.{{Cite web |date=2014-03-26 |title=عائلات تحكم مصر.. 1 ـ "الأباظية" عائلة الباشوات |url=https://www.albawabhnews.com/482311 |access-date=2024-03-07 |website=www.albawabhnews.com |archive-date=19 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240219201236/https://www.albawabhnews.com/482311 |url-status=live }}

• File:Tharwat Abaza speaking to Maher Abaza in parliament.jpg speaking to Maher Abaza in parliament]]The Abaza family includes several literary figures, such as Desouky Pasha Abaza,{{Cite web |last=صخر |first=محمد الشارخ- |title=الأرشيف: إبراهيم دسوقي أباظة |url=https://archive.alsharekh.org/AuthorList/%D8%A5%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%85%20%D8%AF%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%82%D9%8A%20%D8%A3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B8%D8%A9 |access-date=2024-03-07 |website=أرشيف الشارخ للمجلات الأدبية والثقافية العربية |language=ar |archive-date=25 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240325120530/https://archive.alsharekh.org/AuthorList/%D8%A5%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%85%20%D8%AF%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%82%D9%8A%20%D8%A3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B8%D8%A9 |url-status=live }} Ismail Pasha Abaza, Fekry Pasha Abaza (known as the 'Shiekh of Journalism'{{Cite web |date=2019-12-10 |title=DNB, Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek |url=https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=nid=118873814 |access-date=2024-03-20 |archive-date=10 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191210110116/https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=nid=118873814 |url-status=bot: unknown }}) and Aziz Pasha Abaza. Additionally, Tharwat Abaza (1927–2002) was a journalist, novelist and member of parliament. His best-known novel, A Man Escaping from Time, was televised in the late 1960s.{{cite news |date=March 19, 2002 |title=Tharwat Abaza, 75; Egyptian Newspaper Columnist, Writer |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-mar-19-me-passings19.1-story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305082404/http://articles.latimes.com/2002/mar/19/local/me-passings19.1 |archive-date=5 March 2017 |access-date=6 December 2016 |agency=L.A. Times}}

File:Abaza Rushdy.jpg, the clan's most famous member ]]

• Rushdy Saiid Bughdadi Abaza (1926 -1980), an actor "widely considered one of the greatest names in the history of Arab cinema", with no less than 150 movies to his name. At that time, "[acting] was not allowed in such an aristocratic family...and his father and the entire Abaza family strongly objected ...[but] he insisted." He is the best known family member and a household name in the Arab world.{{Cite web |date=2022-05-18 |title=كانت البلياردو سبباً لدخوله عالم الشهرة وكاد يصل إلى العالمية.. كل ما تود معرفته عن دنجوان السينما المصرية رشدي أباظة! |url=https://www.arageek.com/bio/rushdy-abaza |access-date=2024-03-07 |website=أراجيك - Arageek |language=ar |archive-date=30 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190730121116/https://www.arageek.com/bio/rushdy-abaza |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Jalal |first=Maan |date=2022-08-03 |title=Rushdy Abaza: remembering the prolific actor who played a starring role in Arab cinema |url=https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/film/2022/08/03/rushdy-abaza-remembering-the-prolific-actor-who-played-a-starring-role-in-arab-cinema/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240219203122/https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/film/2022/08/03/rushdy-abaza-remembering-the-prolific-actor-who-played-a-starring-role-in-arab-cinema/ |archive-date=19 February 2024 |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=The National |language=en}}
• Maher Abaza (1930–2007), the longest-serving minister in Egyptian history. As the Minister of Electricity and Energy, he was credited with connecting the vast majority of the country's rural areas to the electric grid. After leaving the ministry he became a member of the Egyptian Parliament.
• Wagih Abaza (1917–2004), a member of the Free Officers Movement, that toppled King Farouk in 1952. He later became governor of four provinces including the capital Cairo, Sharqia, Beheira, and Gharbia, and a prominent businessman. He was well known for marrying the famed actress Leila Mourad.{{Cite web |date=2021-06-06 |title=وجيه أباظة زوج ليلى مراد معلومات عنه وصور |url=https://www.awqatk.com/%d9%88%d8%ac%d9%8a%d9%87-%d8%a3%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b8%d8%a9-%d8%b2%d9%88%d8%ac-%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%84%d9%89-%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%af/ |access-date=2024-03-07 |language=ar}}{{Cite news |title=وجيه أباظة |url=https://www.marefa.org/%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%87_%D8%A3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B8%D8%A9 |access-date=2024-03-07 |website=المعرفة |language=ar |archive-date=5 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205151352/https://www.marefa.org/%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%87_%D8%A3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B8%D8%A9 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Refaat |first=Mohammed |title="محافظون وتجارب " (6) وجيه أباظة Governors and Experiences: Wagih Abaza |url=https://www.dostor.org/4435393 |access-date= |website=Dostor |date=27 June 2023 |archive-date=5 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205151443/https://www.dostor.org/4435393 |url-status=live }}
• Mona Abaza (1959–2021), one of Egypt's most prominent sociologists, whose research interests "ranged from women in rural Egypt, the relation between Islam and the West, urban consumer culture, to Egyptian painting and the Arab Spring".{{Cite web |title=Tributes to Mona Abaza (1959-2021) |url=https://globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org//articles/tributes-to-mona-abaza-1959-2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240219155749/https://globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/articles/tributes-to-mona-abaza-1959-2021 |archive-date=19 February 2024 |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org |language=es-ES}}

File:Al-Sayed Pasha Abaza.jpg|al-Sayed Pasha Abaza, one of the sons of Shiekh of the Arabs Hassan Abaza

File:During the honoring ceremony of Fuad Abaza and Dr. Mahmoud Abaza, April 6, 1923.jpg|Abaza family elders in 1923 during an honoring ceremony

File:تجمع عائلي بالبيت الكبير بالزقازيق عام ١٩٢٤ Abaza Beks at their palace in Zagazig.jpg|Abaza Beys at their palace in Sharqia

File:HRH Princess Fayqa with Fekry Pasha Abaza and Fouad Pasha Abaza.jpg|Princess Faika of Egypt with Fekry Pasha Abaza and Fouad Pasha Abaza

File:Maher Abaza taking the oath before President Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak at Abdeen Palace.jpg|Maher Abaza taking oath with President Anwar Sadat and VP Hosni Mubarak at Abdeen Palace

File:عزيز باشا أباظة+ أم كلثوم+ محمد عبد الوهاب Aziz Pasha Abaza Umm Kalthum and Abd-el-Wahab.jpg|Aziz Pasha Abaza with famed singer Umm Kulthum and composer Mohammed Abdel Wahab

File:Tharwat Abaza and Naguib Mahfouz.jpg|Tharwat Abaza and Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz

File:إسماعيل أباظة.webp|Ismail Pasha Abaza

File:Al-Sayed Bey Abaza (far right) with the sisters of King Farouk.jpg|al-Sayed Bey Abaza (far right) with the royal sisters of Farouk of Egypt

File:Bahgat Soliman Atia Boghdady Abaza بهجت سليمان عطية بغدادي أباظة.jpg|Bahgat Soliman Atia Boghdady Abaza one of the heirs to Ezbet Atia Abaza in Sharqia

File:Tharwat Abaza and President Sadat ثروت أباظة والرئيس السادات.jpg|Tharwat Abaza and President Anwar Sadat

File:رؤوف بك أباظة Raouf Bey Abaza.jpg|Raouf Bey Abaza

File:Fekry Pasha Abaza Egyptian stamp.jpg|Stamp with Fekry Pasha Abaza

File:Tharwat Abaza speaking in the Shura Council.jpg|Tharwat Abaza speaking in the Shura Council (Egypt)

File:Amina Abaza with Dog.jpg|Amina Abaza, co-founder of the Society for Protection of Animal Rights in Egypt with Dina Zulfikar

File:Death announcement Mahmoud Bey Abaza of the "House of Abaza", Head of Princely Assets.jpg|Death announcement of Mahmoud Bey Abaza. It identifies him as: "of the 'House of Abaza'...head of the 'Institution of Princely Holdings'"

File:Tharwat Abaza and President Mubarak ثروت أباظة والرئيس مبارك.jpg|Tharwat Abaza and President Hosni Mubarak

File:Abaza Family Soccer Team 1922 فريق كرة القدم لعائلة أباظة 1922.jpg|The Abaza family's soccer team in 1922

• Abaza (disambiguation)
• Abaza (surname)
• Abazins
• Circassians in Egypt
• Egyptian literature
• Abaza language
• Sharqia Governorate
• Abazinia

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• [https://www.facebook.com/abazafamily/ Abaza Family Facebook Page]
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