Mustafa Fazl Pasha
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Egypt
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ian prince belonging to the Muhammad Ali Dynasty
Muhammad Ali Dynasty
The Muhammad Ali Dynasty was the ruling dynasty of Egypt and Sudan, from the 19th to the mid-20th Century. It is named after its progenitor, Muhammad Ali Pasha, regarded as the founder of modern Egypt. It was also more formally known as the Alawiyya Dynasty...
founded by his grandfather Muhammad Ali Pasha.
Prince Mustafa was born at Cairo
Cairo
Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...
the son of Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt
Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt
Ibrahim Pasha was the eldest son of Muhammad Ali, the Wāli and unrecognised Khedive of Egypt and Sudan. He served as a general in the Egyptian army that his father established during his reign, taking his first command of Egyptian forces was when he was merely a teenager...
. He was educated at the Egyptian Mission School in Paris
Paris
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. On January 18, 1863 Prince Mustafa became the heir apparent
Heir apparent
An heir apparent or heiress apparent is a person who is first in line of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting, except by a change in the rules of succession....
to his brother Isma'il Pasha
Isma'il Pasha
Isma'il Pasha , known as Ismail the Magnificent , was the Khedive of Egypt and Sudan from 1863 to 1879, when he was removed at the behest of the United Kingdom...
but on May 28, 1866 the succession law was changed meaning that in was now inherited by the direct male line of the reigning Khedive instead of from brother to brother.
After losing his place as first in the line of succession Prince Mustafa was appointed minister for education in 1862, minister for finance in 1864 and 1869, and for minister for justice from 1871 until 1872.
Prince Mustafa had a number of wives and died at Kandilli
Kandilli
Kandilli may refer toPlaces*Kandilli, Istanbul*Kandilli, ZonguldakShips, a cargo ship operated by Mustafa Andi Nurak 1950-57....
, Bosphorus having fathered ten sons and six daughters, the eldest of whom, Princess Nazli Fazl
Princess Nazli Fazl
Princess Nazli Zeinab Fazil was an Egyptian princess from the dynasty of Muhammad Ali of Egypt and is famous for being hostess to the first modern intellectual salon in the Arab world at her palace in Cairo from the 1880s through her death.-Life:Princess Nazli Fazil was born in Egypt, most likely...
, was a prominent member of Cairo society and hostess to the first literary salon in the Arab world.