Mohammad Farid
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محمد فريد | |
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Mohammad Farid (or Muhammad Farîd;
Origins
Farid was born to an Egyptian Upper class family with distant Turkish descent and strong ties to Muhammad Ali Pasha.[3][4] Farid was the son of the director of el-Da'irah el-Saniyya (Royal state domains administration) and belonged to a landowning family. He attended the Khalil Agha School, the Ecole des Freres, and the School of Administration. He worked as a lawyer for the Egyptian government and for the Parquet (office of the attorney general).
Political life
He was dismissed for backing Shaykh Ali Yusuf, a popular Egyptian newspaper editor who was tried for publishing secret telegrams taken from the War Ministry. Farid proceeded to open his own law office.
Farid was the main political and financial supporter of Mustafa Kamil, the founder of the Egyptian National Party, and after his premature death in 1908, was elected second president of that party. He led the party in Egypt until March 1912 and then in exile until his death.
He argued that the British must withdraw their army of occupation from Egypt and that only Egypt's monarch, the
Legacy
Among Egyptians today, Farid is respected for his nationalism, courage, and self-sacrifice. His memoirs have been published in Arabic, and partly in English translation. He also wrote histories of the
Historian Fawaz Gerges identifies Farid as exemplifying "the emergence of a politics of exile as a means to sustain the struggle against British colonialism."[6]
Notes
- ISBN 1-55587-229-8.
- ISBN 978-0-582-09606-6.
- ^ يلماز أوزتونا. تاريخ الدولة العثمانية. Kutub PDF. Archived from the original on 2017-05-19. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
- ISBN 1-55587-229-8,
Nationalist leader, writer and lawyer. Farid came from a landowning family of Turkish origin.
- ISBN 978-0-7734-9454-1.
- OCLC 1022845920.)
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References
- Muhammad Farid: The Memoirs and Diaries of Muhammad Farid, an Egyptian Nationalist Leader (1868-1919). Edited, annotated, and translated by Arthur Goldschmidt Jr (San Francisco: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992).
- Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2000). pp. 53–54.
- Ehud R. Toledano. 2015 "Muhammad Farid between Nationalism and the Egyptian-Ottoman Diaspora" in Anthony Gorman and Sossie Kasparian, eds.Diasporas of the Modern Middle East: Contextualizing Community Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.