Sa'id of Egypt

Muhammad Said (Arabic: محمد سعيد باشا, Muḥammad Sa ʿ DMG īd Basa, born March 17, 1822 in Cairo, † January 17, 1863 in Alexandria, Cairo ) was 1854-1863 wali ( viceroy ) of Egypt.

Life

Muhammad Said was born in 1822 as the fourth son of Muhammad Ali Pasha and amines Hanim. He took over in 1854, after the death of his nephew Abbas I, the government. Under him, the monopolies were abolished in the economy and changed the control system of payments in kind to a money tax. With the approval of private land ownership but the formation of large estates was promoted. The economic reforms contributed generally to the fact that the European influence on the Egyptian economy grew strongly. Since 1860 there has been a boom in exports of Egyptian cotton after the European industry its cotton imports could not obtain from the Southern United States due to the American Civil War.

Said agreed to the construction of the Suez Canal between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. In 1859, the construction work by a European- Egyptian consortium, the Compagnie du canal maritime de Suez universal begun. The Mediterranean port of Port Said, at the northern end of the Suez Canal, now bears his name. He died in 1863. Was succeeded by Ismail Pasha.

Trivia

His son Mohammed Toussoun (1853-1876) was the Egyptian Minister of Marine. He lived in Alexandria.