Al-Zubayr Rahma Mansur

Al- Zubayr Rahma Mansur Pasha, also Zobeir Pasha, Pasha accessories or Siber Rachama - Gjimme - Abi (Arabic الزبير رحمة منصور, DMG -Zubayr Rahma Mansur, * 1830, † 1913) was a Sudanese slave traders and military leader.

Life

Al- Zubayr was a powerful ivory and slave traders in what is now Sudan, Chad and Central Africa. He had a several thousand -strong army. From 1869 he dominated Bahr al - Ghazal. In 1873 he successfully fought the Egyptian army, which was sent under Ballal Bey by Bahr al - Ghazal. The Khedive of Egypt confessed then a defeat and made the region an official Egyptian province, al - Zubayr, as governor. 1873 reached eel - Zubayr the Fur sultans, then still an independent kingdom in the western Sudan, and conquered until 1874 the country for the Egyptians. Khedive Ismail Pasha appointed him for a pasha.

1877 was al - Zubayr in an Egyptian contingent in the Russian- Ottoman war in Rumelia. In the same year Charles George Gordon ( Gordon Pasha ) Governor General of the Sudan. On August 4, 1877 agreement between Egypt and the United Kingdom was completed, which should suppress the slave trade gradually. In June 1878 al - Zubayr launched an uprising by the slave traders. His son, Suleiman led the uprising, as al - Zubayr was held in Cairo. Gordon and the Italian-born governor of Bahr -el -Ghazal, Gessi could quash the uprising. Suleiman was shot under martial law in July 1880.

Although Gordon originally called for the deportation of al - Zubayrs to Cyprus, he asked the Egyptian government to leave after the outbreak of the Mahdi uprising, al - Zubayr accompany him. On January 26, 1884 Gordon and therefore al - Zubayr met, in the presence of Evelyn Wood, Giegler Pasha and Evelyn Baring, together. On March 8, Gordon telegraphed from Khartoum: " If you do not send accessories, there is no view, mop the garrison. " Al - Zubayr The appointment was rejected by the Egyptian government, which wanted to see no former slave trader at the tip of the Sudan. 1885 al - Zubayr was arrested for suspected support of the Mahdi in Cairo and taken to Gibraltar. In 1887 he was allowed to return to Cairo. In 1899 he returned to the defeat of the Mahdi uprising back to Sudan.

In the film Khartoum Zia Mohyeddin played the character of al - Zubayr.