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Fuad I ( Arabic: فؤاد الأول Fu’ād al-Awwal; 26 March 1868 – 28 April 1936) was the Sultan and later King of Egypt and the Sudan. The ninth ruler of Egypt and Sudan from the Muhammad Ali dynasty, he became Sultan in 1917, succeeding his elder brother Hussein Kamel.
Fuʾād I (born March 26, 1868, Cairo, Egypt—died April 28, 1936, Cairo) was the first king of Egypt (1922–36) following its independence from Great Britain. The youngest son of Ismāʿīl Pasha, Fuʾād spent most of his childhood with his exiled father in Naples.
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King Ahmed Fuad I. • Born on March 26, 1868 in Giza. • When he turned seven, he was enrolled in the private school founded by his father in Abdeen Palace. After that, he went to Italy and suffered during his stay there. • He traveled to Turkey for meeting Sultan Abdul Hamid so as to help him go back to Egypt.
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In 1917 Fuad assumed power as sultan, and barely 2 years later Egypt's second revolution broke out, this time led by Egypt's national hero and statesman Saad Zaghlul. Fuad apparently took no part in the uprising or in the political discussions that ensued between the nationalists and the British occupation. The outcome of that revolution compelled ...
This struggle led to the dissolution of the Egyptian Parliament, dominated by the Wafd, in 1930, and the abolition of the first constitution and its replacement by another—again by royal decree—in the same year. The Parliament "elected" in 1931 in accordance with the new constitution was boycotted by the nationalist forces, and its unrepresentative...
Useful background studies on Egypt include Hisham B. Sharabi, Governments and Politics of the Middle East in the Twentieth Century (1962); Mahmud Y. Zayid, Egypt's Struggle for Independence (1965); and Tom Little, Modern Egypt (1967; first published as Egyptin 1958). □
Fuad I (1868–1936) was the king of Egypt from 1923 to 1936, chosen by the British for his pro-imperial views. He faced opposition from the Wafd party and struggled with British influence.
Fuad I was the Sultan and later King of Egypt and the Sudan. The ninth ruler of Egypt and Sudan from the Muhammad Ali dynasty, he became Sultan in 1917, succeeding his elder brother Hussein Kamel. He replaced the title of Sultan with King when the United Kingdom unilaterally declared Egyptian independence in 1922.
Fuad I was the first king of modern Egypt, son of the khedive Ismail Pasha. He ruled from 1917 to 1936 and faced political and constitutional challenges from the Wafd party.
