User:Osmanrif

Ahmet Rifat Pasha,born in Cairo 1825-died Kafr El Zayat 1858, Grandson of Mehmet Ali Pasha,Viceroy of Egypt and eldest son of Ibrahim Pasha,Viceroy of Egypt(1848).Heir to the throne during the rule of his uncle Said Pasha,Viceroy of Egypt(1854-1863).

Studied in France attending first the School of Artillery and then the Ecole Supérieure de Guerre. President of the Council of State 1854 to his death. Killed in a train accident in Kafr el Zayat therefore letting his younger brother Ismail become next heir to the throne.

Father: Ibrahim Pasha,Viceroy of Egypt born in Kavalla,Ottoman Thrace 1789-died Cairo 1848

Son:Prince Ibrahim Fehmi Pasha and Ottoman field-marshall,born Cairo 1847-died Cairo 1894.

Kavalali Mehmet Ali dynasty(turkish) or Muhammed Ali dynasty(arabic) Origin:Ottoman Turkish.

references:1)Three centuries(Emine Foat Tugay)-Oxford University Press 1963          2) Almanach de Gotha 1939 3) Mehemet Ali le grand(Prince Osman Ibrahim,Caroline and Ali Kurhan)-Maisonneuve & Larose,Paris 2005          4) The much debated royal death on the Nile(Samir Rafat)Al Ahram weekly-1994