Ahmad Izzat Pasha al-Abid explained

Ahmad Izzat Pasha al-Abid
Office:Mabeyn-i hümayun ikinci katibi
Birth Name:Ahmad Izzat bin Hawlu al-Abid
Birth Date:1851
Birth Place:Damascus, Ottoman Empire
Death Place:Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt

Ahmad Izzat Pasha bin Hawlu Pasha al-Abid (Arabic: أحمد عزت باشا بن هولو باشا العابد|translit=Aḥmad {{ayn; Turkish: Holo{{efn|{{lang|tr|Holo or Turkish: Abidzade Ahmed İzzet Paşa;[1] 1851–1924), nicknamed Izzat Pasha the Arab[2] (Turkish: link=no|Arap İzzet Paşa), was a Syrian entrepreneur who became Second Secretary and confidant of Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II. He is considered to have been "one of the most powerful" statesmen during the last decade of Abdulhamid's rule.[3]

Life

Ahmad Izzat al-Abid was born in Damascus. His father was Hawlu Pasha al-Abid. Ahmad Izzat was educated in Beirut. He spoke Arabic, French and Turkish. He moved to Istanbul where he served the Ottoman sultan, Abdulhamid II as an adviser. He left the Ottoman Empire following the Young Turk Revolution in 1908 and moved to London for some time before living in France and Switzerland. He then left for Egypt, where he died in 1924.

Abid accumulated great wealth during his life. He was also a businessman and owned numerous enterprises or buildings including the largest tourist hotel in Syria at the time, the Victoria Hotel in Damascus.

He was the father of Muhammad Ali Bay al-Abid, who served as the first president of the mandatory Syrian Republic.[2]

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Book: tr. Dünden bugüne İstanbul ansiklopedisi. 7. 393. 1993.
  2. Book: Osmanoğlu, Ayşe. fr. Avec mon père le sultan Abdulhamid. 1991. 34. Editions L'Harmattan . 9782296241763 .
  3. Book: Hahn, Steven Michael. The Roots of Turkish Nationalism. 1998.