Whoever reads history well, and peruses documents and documents, knows that Ilhami Pasha preserved his father’s horses, and that horses multiplied during his reign, and that out of his strong love for horses, he became giving them gifts to those he loved, especially since he had horses that no one else had, represented in the treasure he cared about. His father.
Ilhami Pasha held an auction to sell some horses, and they were sold for a great price. Prince Muhammad Ali Tawfiq tells of the auction organized by Ilhami Pasha months before his death in which he sold 240 horses, which included 180 foals, 30 horses and 10 mares. Given the excellence of production; One-year-old foals were sold for 100 pounds, pairs of foals 250 pounds, and a horse 700 pounds. As for the old mares, which reached the age of 20 years, they were sold for 50 pounds.
These prices, despite the lack of money at that time, if we compare these prices to our time; We found that the horse was sold for more than 5 million pounds. This auction proves that Ilhami Pasha was an outstanding breeder.
The Book of Orders shows that the number of horses that were in Elhami Pasha’s stables amounted to 2,825 horses, meaning that he preserved the treasure of purebred Arabian horses that his father left him.
In the Abbasid stable there were 304 horses, and in the Matariya stable there were 133 horses. As for the mountain stable, the number of its horses reached 183, and the number of horses in the Horin inspection stables reached 665 horses, while the number of horses in the Qalyubia inspection stables reached 257. As for the Eastern Inspection stables, the number of their horses reached 555 horses, and the number of horses in the Stables of the First Western Division reached 285 horses, and the Inspection stables of the Party had 443 horses.
Thara Ilhami Pasha, son-in-law of the Ottoman Sultan
Ilhami Pasha was one of the wealthiest men in the family of Muhammad Ali. After the death of his father, no one thought of taking away his own fortune; He is the son-in-law of the Ottoman Sultan.
Ilhami Pasha owned 6 wafers, traveling in the shipping line from Istanbul to Alexandria via Izmir on the way, and returning to Astana via Mersin. Ticket prices were 980 millimes for a first-class ticket and 280 millimes for a ticket on the roof of the Wabor.
The first swarm bore the name “Brons Teko”, led by Captain Vinopolst, the second ‘London’ swarm led by Captain Jetmon, the third ‘Cairo’ led by the captain Ibradavnish, the fourth ‘Marial’ led by the captain over a captain, and the fifth, “Yenokoatreli” led by Captain Zarovitch. The last “Ilhami Yacht” was piloted by Captain Henson.
Ilhami Pasha blessed Mr. Ali Pasha Sharif with 500 acres in inspecting the locality and a group of horses. Here, the secret of Ali Pasha Sharif, head of the Chamber of Commerce at that time, became clear to Elhamy Pasha, and his attempt to preserve his horses. That is, a year after the death of his father, Abbas Pasha, and the lands that Ilhami Pasha had bestowed upon his loyal men amounted to 2,260 acres.
During the year Ilhami Pasha gave 13 horses, as he sent to Sharif Muhammad bin Auda 3 horses, Ahmed Pasha Yakan, the overseer of Jihadism, 2 horses, 3 to Kamel Pasha, one to Qadi al-Mahrousa, one to Suleiman Pasha al-Farnsawy, one to Sheikh al-Bagouri, and two to Artin Bey. .
The Inspirational Circle was productive, and achieved high profits. The Inspirational Circle sold agricultural land for 4506 sheets of paper in 1859, while the backfill extraction lab achieved 11866 sheets.
As for the lands of the district of the late Ilhami Pasha, according to the census of 1275 AH, that is, two years before his death, the documents showed that Ilhami Pasha increased the lands that he inherited from his father Abbas Pasha by about 3 times, and this explains the importance of the district, whose lands area amounted to 62,843 acres.
The monthly salaries allocated to the stables workers amounted to 22,376 millimes per month, while the total salaries amounted to 129,531 millimes per month, disbursed to 666 employees and employees, and the net income amounted to 51030.45 sheets.
Elhami Pasha studied martial arts at the Abbasid school, then was appointed as the overseer of jihadism during his father’s era.
In the year 1269 AH he went to Constantinople and stayed at the guest of Sultan Abdul Majeed Khan . My second dream.
Ilhami Pasha died by drowning in the Bosphorus in Uskudar in 1277 AH, and his body was taken to Egypt.
Rumor has it that Ilhami Pasha is selling horses for debt
Foreigners often repeat rumors with the aim of belittling or defaming our advantages. Whoever reads history well knows that a large part of what historians and orientalists have written about Arabian horses is not true, and that they receive what they write from the public, especially what they promoted that books and inspirational horses were sold. Pasha to pay the debts that he owed. Official documents in the House of Books confirm that Ilhami Pasha’s books, which numbered 1,707 in his private library, were sold at auction, as his wife, the daughter of the Ottoman Sultan, decided to return to Constantinople and raise her only daughter, Amina Elhami there. Since she was the only daughter, and had no children; She sold all that she saw no need of; Therefore, a public auction was held to sell books in Saray El Helmeya in guarded Egypt. This auction began on Friday, September 20, 1861, provided that the auction will be held every Tuesday, and will continue until the books are finished, and an announcement was made with the names of the books, and Adham Pasha took over the estate of the late Elhamy Pasha and head of the legation commission bookstore.
A booklet was made in which the index of the various books about the late Elhamy Pasha was made, and it is still preserved so far in the Egyptian House of Books and Documents, No. 42/C, consisting of 32 pages.
If the sale was for the benefit of the Egyptian banks, as claimed and von Heugel wrote about his trip to Egypt to attend the public auction of Abbas Pasha’s horses, there would be no book auction.
The report printed in the book “The Purebred Arabian Horse”, written by Prince A.G. Shcherbatov, Count S. a. Stroganov, issued by the King Abdulaziz Public Library in 1999 AD, revised and edited by Dr. Awad Atta Al-Badi in response to the allegation: If we look at the report, we find that the auction date is wrong, and it is self-evident that whoever erred in the auction date will succeed in writing the correct information? The second thing is that von Heugel pointed out that when he went to Egypt in 1852, Abbas Pasha had 1,000 heads, and confirms that when he visited Egypt in 1856, Abbas Pasha’s horses had been stolen and perished, and he gave for example that the Bedouins attacked the stable in the desert in the middle of the Suez Road and stole the horses And that he personally saw the ruins of the building, and the third thing confirms that only 350 horses remain.
The official documents belie everything von Heugel claimed, as the official documents preserved in the Dar al-Kutub confirm that Ilhami Pasha’s horses numbered 2,825, distributed in 8 stables we mentioned before, and the documents did not mention the presence of any horses in the stables of Casablanca, while Heugel claimed that The number of horses that remained after the destruction of Ilhami Pasha is 350 horses. He says that he saw 1,000 horses when he visited Abbas Pasha I in 1852, meaning that the documents prove that Ilhami Pasha took care of his father Abbas Pasha’s horses, and doubled their numbers.
This proves his eagerness to treasure the horses that his father left for him. As for the story of the destruction of part of the stable in Casablanca, it is well known. It is not, as he wrote, that the Bedouins wanted to steal horses, but the fact that this part of the stable was blown up with dynamite; To search for the treasure of Abbas Pasha buried in the stables of Casablanca.
Documents belie the rumor Heugel sold Ilhami Pasha horses to pay off debts
We present documents that prove the opposite of what Hegel mentioned about his trip to Egypt; to buy horses from an auction of Elhami Pasha for the King of Württemberg in Germany, as we show what von Heugel wrote; Let us put in the hands of the reader the whole truth without any interference from us.
Von Heugel wrote in his report that Ilhami Pasha is the sole heir of his father Abbas Pasha, and he was only eighteen years old, but he was not interested in horses like his father, so he did not take care of his inherited farm, and it was also difficult for him to keep all this number of horses, so he decided to abandon About some of them, the King of Fuertemberg, Germany, in 1858 obtained a gray stallion, which he called “Ilhami”, and then got the horse “Solomon” and the mare “Zarifa”. When Ilhami Pasha married the daughter of the Ottoman Sultan, he sent to Istanbul a group of horses, and often he would give the best horses to Constantinople and to his friends, he would give one, two or three horses, so that only three hundred and fifty heads remained.
The administrators took advantage of his indifference to the farm, so they began to earn horses from him by stealing and fraud, and the best horses of the farm passed into the hands of rich amateurs by offering bribes to the politician. Abbas Pasha’s three hundred and fifty horses were auctioned.
The head of the farm “Fuerttemberg” in Germany von Hegel, who was present at the auction in his diaries, mentions the story of that auction in some detail, saying:
In late October 1860 AD, the King of Württemberg, Germany, received the news of the death of Ilhami Pasha, Ibn Abbas Pasha, and his horses had been auctioned. the king head of his horse ranch von Hegel to Egypt; To participate in the auction, thanks to Banque Misr’s timely notification, Arab horse enthusiasts in Europe were able to attend the public auction.
Von Hegel says in his memoirs: I arrived at Abbasiya a week before the start of the auction, and had enough time to survey the horses in the stables, and nothing could interest an amateur more than the sight of this stable, which, like me, was forbidden to enter when Abbas Pasha was alive, It included all types of representatives of the Arab dynasty.
The horses were grouped in eight halls, surrounded by high walls of stone, and divided into simple covered booths to protect the horses from the hot sun, but they did not completely block the sky. This type of barn was suitable for the climate of Egypt, and the balconies of Abbas Pasha’s palace overlooked all these barns that he had carefully prepared for horses.
Approximately thirty horses (fourteen of them for stud), one hundred and ten mares, and one hundred and eighty foals were set aside for sale, and the most astonishing were the mares of Kahil Nawak of their length and strength, and no less well-rounded than any English hunting horse.
And “Von Heugel” admits that he did not expect before that there are such large Arabian horses.
Models of Saqlawi horses, Dahman al-Shahwan, were displayed at auction.
In addition, there were good examples from Saqlawi Moradi, Dahman Umm Amer, Kahilan Nawaq, Kahilan and Beri, Hadban and Rabdan.
The majority of these horses were grey, then blond, and finally dumb. There were also unknown dynasties, for example: Shahran from the southwest of Hejaz; Close to the Red Sea.
Knights of this type were distinguished by their original shape, depth of saddle, short legs and strong build, but they were slightly long back, small tail size with a high posture of the tail.
The auction began at ten o’clock in the morning of the tenth of December, and the auction body was headed by Adham Pasha, the former Minister of Education in the era of Abbas Pasha.
On the neck of each horse, cards were written on which descriptions were written in Arabic. A place was reserved for the Europeans on the right of the auctioneer, and a place on the left for the various representatives of the East. The auction took place in both Arabic and Italian, with prices being announced by three brokers who moved among the buyers. Prices were set in pounds sterling, and jokes and humor abounded in the well-known Egyptian way, so the “tipping” played its role in some deals.
And this paragraph in the report is incorrect, as the tip played an important role, so how does tipping play a role in a public auction attended by representatives of kings, princes, pashas and notables?! Is the tip here for representatives of the elite of the people so that they do not compete with each other, especially that Adham Pasha, the auctioneer, is one of the most loyal men of Abbas Pasha, and Ali Pasha Sharif is one of Ilhami Pasha’s men, and he worked hard to buy the best horses to complete the career of Abbas Pasha and his son Ilhami.
Heugel continued: The auction lasted three weeks, and daily from ten in the morning until three in the evening sold no more than twenty-five to twenty-eight heads.
On the first day, twenty horses were sold for five hundred pounds each, which were two years old for two hundred and fifty pounds, and twenty-year-old mares were sold for one hundred and twenty two hundred and twenty pounds. In some cases, the sale was three hundred and seven hundred pounds each.
Von Heugel specially bought two horses and three mares: Kader, Sadhan, Dahma, Dhuba, and Mariah. The horse Qadir (Saqlawi Gedran) and Dahmeh (Dahmat al-Shahwan) were especially appreciated, and their transfer to Europe aroused great discontent among the indigenous population (the people of Cairo).
Here we find a clear contradiction in the report between the previous and subsequent paragraphs, how there was indignation about von Heugel’s purchase of two horses and three mares, and the previous paragraph in which he says that the residents of Cairo bought the most horses.
The majority of the horses were bought by the natives (Cairo residents), and they were sent to small stalls on the outskirts of Cairo.
It was said that one young man, Ali Bey al-Sharif, head of the “Diwan of Commerce”, acquired about forty heads.
In this way, the horses of Abbas Pasha were saved from extinction. Perhaps they will have the means to reproduce again if the hands that nurture them are found.
The Russian traveler Dokhtrov confirms what Dr. von Hegel said that four horses unparalleled in the world were sold in this auction, the best of which was the twenty-six-year-old horse “Qadir”, which was bought for the benefit of the Feuerttemberg farm, the second was bought for the Austrian horse breeding farm, and the third for the Ottoman Sultan. The fourth was bought by the millionaire banker Oppenheim, and the set taken by Ali Al-Sharif, head of the commercial court in Cairo, and all these horses are from the horse Qadir.
Von Hegel continues his words, saying: “When I was in Cairo in the winter of 1899, I had the opportunity to get acquainted with Hussein Bey Al-Sharif, the son of Ali Pasha Al-Sharif, and according to what Hussein Bey said, Ali Bey was the chief agent (broker) of Abbas Pasha in sales operations. Buying a horse.
The report of the German Baron, which witnessed the historical end of the greatest Arab horse stud, ended, and the Baron was right when he predicted the future of the horses that were sold. Prince Ali Pasha Al-Sharif preserved the Abbasid horses and worked on breeding them for another thirty-five years.
Here, everyone should know that Heugel’s report on the public auction of Abbas Pasha’s horses has a clear confusion between the auction of Ilhami Pasha, which was held in 1860 AD, and the auction of 1961 that was held after the death of Ilhami Pasha. As is evident in the books of Prince Muhammad Ali Tawfiq, Ilhami Pasha held an auction to sell 240 horses of different ages, which achieved the highest prices. As for the auction of horses selling after his death, it was at the end of 1861. It is noticeable that the lines of the report focus on the exaggeration of the King of Wuerttemberg, Germany, and that he was the one who was keen to send someone who would buy the best horses.
By the end of the report, it seems clear that the Europeans always try to brag about what is not true, and that their words are not accurate, which was confirmed by Lady “Anne Blunt” in her memoirs, who was fully aware of the value of the Arabian horse, especially the Egyptian, so she established a farm in Egypt.
Blunt confirms in her memoirs what we have reached from research and investigation, that in 1861 “Ilhami” held an auction in his stud to sell the surplus of a group of horses. In that year Elhami Pasha died, and several months after his death an auction was held to sell all his horses, half of which went to all over Europe.
She notes that El-Hami Pasha kept a book, a small volume about six inches by nine, which contained a short note on unique mares and horses, said to have considered it so precious, that he always carried it in his chest pocket.
