Ahmad Rifaat Pasha

Ahmad Rifaat Pasha (8 December 1825 – 15 May 1858) was a member of the Albanian Muhammad Ali dynasty of Egypt. He was the son of Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, and his consort Shivakiar Qadin.

Ahmed Rifaat Pasha
Born	8 December 1825
Died	15 May 1858 (aged 32) Kafr el-Zayyat
Burial	Hosh al-Basha Mausoleum of Imam al-Shafi'i, Cairo, Egypt
Spouse	Shams Hanim Azmraftar Qadin Dilbar Jihan Qadin Za'faran Qadin
Issue	Ibrahim Fahmi Pasha Ahmad Kamal Pasha Ayn al-Hayat Ahmad
Arabic	أحمد رفعت باشا
Dynasty	Muhammad Ali
Father	Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt
Mother	Shivakiar Qadin
Religion	Islam

Death

He was heir presumptive to Sa'id Pasha. However, in 1858, a special train conveying Ahmad Rifaat Pasha was being carried on a car float across the Nile at Kafr el-Zayyat.[1] The train fell off the car float into the river and the prince was drowned.[1]

Sa'id outlived Ahmad Rifaat until 1863, when he was succeeded by Isma'il Pasha.

Personal life

His consorts were Shams Hanim (died 1891),[2] known as "Princess Ahmad",[3] mother of Ibrahim Fahmi Pasha (1847 – 1893),[2] Azmraftar Qadin (died 1904), mother of Ahmad Kamal Pasha (1857 – 1907),[2] Dilbar Jihan Qadin (died 1900), mother of Ayn al-Hayat Ahmad (1858 – 1910),[2] and Za'faran Qadin, an Abyssinian, and mother of a son and a daughter.[4]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Ahmad Rifaat Pasha
16. Osman Agha 8. Ibrahim Agha 4. Muhammad Ali Pasha 9. Zainab Hanim 2. Ibrahim Pasha 10. Nusratli Ali Agha 5. Amina Hanim 1. Ahmad Rifaat Pasha 3. Shivakiar Qadin

See also

• Muhammad Ali Dynasty
• Muhammad Ali Dynasty family tree

References

1. Hughes, Hugh (1981). Middle East Railways. Harrow: Continental Railway Circle. p. 17. ISBN 0-9503469-7-7.
2. Doumani, Beshara (2003). Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender. SUNY Press. p. 270. ISBN 978-0-791-48707-5.
3. Chennells, E. (1893). Recollections of an Egyptian Princess. William Blackwood. p. 274.
4. Walz, T.; Cuno, K.M. (2010). Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in Nineteenth-century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean. American University in Cairo Press. p. 54. ISBN 978-977-416-398-2.