Mustafa Fahmi

Born in Crete in 1840 to a Turkish family who had earlier settled in Algeria, Fahmi's father was a colonel.{{cite book|author=Arthur Goldschmidt|title=Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt|url=https://archive.org/details/00jrgo|year=2000|url-access=registration|publisher=Lynne Rienner Publishers|isbn=978-1-55587-229-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/00jrgo/page/51 51]|location=Boulder, CO; London}} Fahmi graduated from the military academy.

After graduation, Fahmi joined the Egyptian army and later, he became a lieutenant general. He retired from the army and began to serve as a governor in different provinces, including Minuffiyya, Cairo and lastly, Port Said. After serving in other low-profile public positions, he was appointed minister of public works in 1879. Then Fahmi served at different cabinet positions: minister of foreign affairs, minister of justice, minister of finance (1884-1887),{{cite book|editor=Arthur Goldschmidt Jr.|title=Historical Dictionary of Egypt|year=2003|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6586-0|edition=4th|location=Lanham, MD |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QQNSAQAAQBAJ}} minister of interior (three times) and minister of war and marine (two times).

Fahmi was appointed prime minister on 12 May 1891, replacing Riaz Pasha in the post.{{cite book|editor=M. W. Daly|title=The Cambridge History of Egypt|author=M. W. Daly|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8ByQvxi980sC&pg=PA241|year=1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-47211-1|page=241|volume=2|location=Cambridge|chapter=The British Occupation, 1882–1922}} Fahmi remained in office for nearly two years and was sacked by Khedive Abbas II on 15 January 1893.{{cite book|page=47|year=1971

|author=Mounah Abdallah Khouri|title=Poetry and the Making of Modern Egypt: 1882-1922|location=Leiden|id=GGKEY:3JPP2EBRNW3|publisher=E. J. Brill

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WH8eAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA47}}{{cite thesis|author=Kristin Shawn Tassin|degree=PhD

|title=Egyptian nationalism, 1882-1919: Elite competition, transnational networks, empire, and independence|location=University of Texas at Austin|page=28|url=http://hdl.handle.net/2152/28411|year=2014|hdl=2152/28411}} The Khedive dismissed him due to his over reliance on the British agency. Hussein Fahri Pasha replaced Fahmi Pasha as prime minister.

Fahmi's second term as prime minister began on 12 November 1895, and he replaced Nubar Pasha in the post. Fahmi remained in the office until 12 November 1908 when he resigned from the post. Boutros Ghali replaced him as prime minister.{{cite journal

|author=Arthur Goldschmidt Jr.|title=The Butrus Ghali Family|journal=Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt|year=1993|volume=30

|page=185|doi=10.2307/40000236|jstor=40000236}}

Fahmi was among the close allies of Cromer who was the British colonial administrator in Egypt.{{cite thesis|author=Saad Ghazi Abi-Hamad|title=Dueling perceptions: British and Egyptian interactions, 1882–1919|location=University of Texas at Austin

|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/304811331|page=28|id={{ProQuest|304811331}}|degree=PhD|isbn=978-0-549-10086-7|year=2007}} Fahmi's daughter, Safiya, was a political activist and a significant figure in the Egyptian society.{{cite news|date=8 March 2012|title=Women's movement: A look back, and forward|access-date=11 September 2013|newspaper=Egypt Independent|author=Ahmed Zaki Osman

|url=http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/womens-movement-look-back-and-forward}} She married Saad Zaghlul in 1896.{{cite book

|author=Steven A. Cook|title=The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4rB2iyq4OXsC&pg=PT32

|year=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-979532-1|page=32|location=Oxford; New York}}{{cite book|location=London

|title=Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798-1939|year=1962|publisher=Oxford University Press|author=Albert Hourani|isbn=978-0-5118-0199-0

|url=https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511801990|doi=10.1017/CBO9780511801990}}

Fahmi died in Cairo on 13 September 1914.

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