Raghib Pasha

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Isma'il ibn Ahmad ibn Hassan bani Yani known simply as Isma'il Ragheb Pashawas a Greek Ottoman politician who served as Prime Minister of Egypt and held several other high-ranking government positions.Isma'il Ragheb was of Greek ancestryand was born in Greeceon 18 August 1819 on either the island of Chios following the great Massacreor CandiaCrete. After being kidnapped to Anatolia he was brought to Egypt as a slave by Ibrahim Pasha in 1830[9] and converted to Islam. Immediately following his arrival, he studied at al-Maktab al-Amiri and obtained his advanced degree in 1834. He was fluent in Greeknd was elevated to the rank of First Lieutenant by Egypt's viceroy Muhammad Ali Pasha. In 1836, he became head of the Accounting and Revenue Agencies.

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