Māhir Pasha, ʿAlī

Māhir Pasha, ʿAlī

▪ prime minister of Egypt
born c. 1882, Cairo, Egypt
died Aug. 25, 1960, Geneva, Switz.
 jurist and official who served three times as prime minister of Egypt.

      Māhir Pasha, a member of the aristocracy, took a law degree and after three years' practice became a judge in the native courts. In the years before World War I he sided with conservative Egyptian political groups who thought that it was possible to cooperate with the British (who had occupied Egypt in 1882) in bringing economic and social progress to Egypt. He devoted his talents to the service of the king: in 1923 he was appointed director of the royal law school, and in the same year he played an important role in framing the new Egyptian constitution, a document that consolidated and confirmed the political preeminence of the monarch. In successive administrations he was at various times minister of education and minister of finance. He acquired his greatest influence in the later 1930s, when royal power was at its peak. In 1935 King Fuʾād I chose him for the new position of chief of the royal cabinet, and at the end of 1935 he became prime minister in a caretaker government, serving during the next two years first as prime minister and later again as chief of the royal cabinet. He became prime minister again in 1939, and on the outbreak of World War II he took the measures against Germany that were required by the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936. When Italy declared war in 1940, however, he refused to break diplomatic relations, and he became one of the centres in the movement to use the war as a means of undermining the British position in Egypt. Accordingly the British had him removed from office, and in April 1942 he was interned, remaining in custody until the end of the war.

      Māhir Pasha remained politically inactive until the revolution of Gamal Abdel Nasser (Nasser, Gamal Abdel) in 1952. The revolutionaries, who saw him as someone who could placate conservative political elements, secured his nomination as prime minister on July 24, 1952, one day after the revolution. In less than a year, however, Māhir Pasha clashed with them over their land reform policies and went into retirement.

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