Mahmoud El Nokrashy Pasha

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Mahmoud El Nokrashy Pasha
Ismail Sedki Pasha
Personal details
Born26 April 1888
Egypt
Died28 December 1948 (aged 60)
Cairo, Egypt

Mahmoud Fahmy El Nokrashy Pasha (April 26, 1888 – December 28, 1948) (

political figure. He was the twenty-seventh prime minister of the Kingdom of Egypt.[1]

Early life and education

Nokrashy was born in Alexandria on 26 April 1888 to a middle-class family. His father was an Egyptian accountant, and his mother, Hanifa was of Turkish origin.[2] Nokrashy was a graduate of the Ras Al Tin high school.[3]

Career

Nokrashy Pasha was a member of the Saadist Institutional Party (SIP) which supported a liberal monarchist programme.[4][5] He was also a member of the secret apparatus of the Wafd Party, Egypt's then main nationalist party.[6]

Nokrashy Pasha and King Farouk in an official visit, 1947

Nokrashy Pasha served as the

Ahmad Mahir Pasha) and the second from 1946 to 1948.[1] His second cabinet was a coalition government comprising members of the Saadist Institutional Party and the Liberal Constitutional Party.[7]

In 1948, Nokrashy Pasha became very concerned with the assertiveness and popularity of the Muslim Brotherhood.[8] Rumours of a Brotherhood coup against the monarchy and government had appeared, and the Brotherhood had already been implicated in the killing of Nokrashy Pasha's predecessor.[8] Shortly after these rumours first gained currency, the prime minister formally outlawed the Brotherhood in December 1948, and this led directly to his own assassination.[8][9] In addition to the Brotherhood being officially declared an illegal organization, the assets of the Brotherhood were seized by the government and many Brotherhood members went to prison.

Assassination

Less than three weeks after these activities against the Brotherhood, Nokrashy Pasha was gunned down by Abdel Meguid Ahmed Hassan, who was a veterinary student at the

Hasan Al Banna on 12 February 1949: despite the fact that Banna had condemned the murder of the prime minister, and had publicly called it a terrorist act incompatible with Islam.[8]

Hassan was arrested after the murder, and confessed that he was a member of the Brotherhood.[12] He reported that it was the prime minister's decision to crack down upon the Brotherhood that had motivated him to carry out the shooting. [12] Found guilty at his trial, he was soon afterwards hanged; three men who had knowingly helped him plan the assassination were sentenced to penal servitude for life.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b "Political leaders: Egypt". Terra. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
  2. ISBN 0195382072
    , Nuqrashi, Mahmud Fahmi al- (1888–1948), Egyptian politician and educator, was born in Alexandria on 26 April 1888 to a middle-class family. His father was an Egyptian accountant for the Khedivial mail, and his mother, Hanifa, was of Turkish origin.
  3. doi:10.1086/446382
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  4. ISBN 978-1-85109-842-2
    . Retrieved 27 September 2014.
  5. ^ "The Suez Crisis". About.com. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
  6. JSTOR 217848
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  7. JSTOR 4321861
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  8. ^ a b c d e Hussain, Ghaffar (2010). "A short history of Islamism" (Concept Series). Quilliam. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
  9. JSTOR 163074
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  10. JSTOR 176254
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  11. ^ "Profile: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood". Al Jazeera. 6 February 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
  12. ^ a b c d e f Jabr, Karam (1999). "Two Swords.. with the Qur'an in between!". Arab West Reports. Archived from the original on 18 February 2013. Retrieved 24 December 2012.

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Political offices
Preceded by
Ahmed Maher Pasha
 Prime Minister of Egypt
1945–1946 		Succeeded by
Ismail Sedky Pasha
Preceded by
Ismail Sedky Pasha
 Prime Minister of Egypt
1946–1948 		Succeeded by
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