Ahmad Rifaat Pasha (8 December 1825 – 15 May 1858) was a member of the
Albania
Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea and shares ...
n
Muhammad Ali dynasty of
Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Medit ...
. He was the son of
Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt
Ibrahim Pasha ( tr, Kavalalı İbrahim Paşa; ar, إبراهيم باشا ''Ibrāhīm Bāshā''; 1789 – 10 November 1848) was an Ottoman Albanian general in the Egyptian army and the eldest son of Muhammad Ali, the Wāli and unrecognised Kh ...
, and his consort Shivakiar Qadin.
Death
He was
heir presumptive
An heir presumptive is the person entitled to inherit a throne, peerage, or other hereditary honour, but whose position can be displaced by the birth of an heir apparent or a new heir presumptive with a better claim to the position in question.
...
to
Sa'id Pasha. However, in 1858, a special train conveying Ahmad Rifaat Pasha was being carried on a
car float
A railroad car float or rail barge is a specialised form of lighter with railway tracks mounted on its deck used to move rolling stock across water obstacles, or to locations they could not otherwise go. An unpowered barge, it is towed by a t ...
across the Nile at
Kafr el-Zayyat.
The train fell off the car float into the river and the prince was drowned.
[
Sa'id outlived Ahmad Rifaat until 1863, when he was succeeded by ]Isma'il Pasha
Isma'il Pasha ( ar, إسماعيل باشا ; 12 January 1830 – 2 March 1895), was the Khedive of Egypt and conqueror of Sudan from 1863 to 1879, when he was removed at the behest of Great Britain. Sharing the ambitious outlook of his gran ...
.
Personal life
His consorts were Shams Hanim (died 1891),
Ancestry
See also
* Muhammad Ali Dynasty
* Muhammad Ali Dynasty family tree
References
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Muhammad Ali dynasty
Royalty from Cairo
1825 births
1858 deaths
Deaths by drowning
Accidental deaths in Egypt