If Abbas Pasha I was the founder of the Egyptian horse kingdom and the collector of its great breeds from everywhere, especially the Arabian Peninsula, then the credit for preserving these breeds goes to Ali Pasha Sharif, for the blood of the Egyptian horse that is presently present in all countries of the world belongs to his horses.
Prince Muhammad Ali Tawfiq says about him in his book “About the Pure Horses in Egypt”: Egypt has been fortunate to have a great man who is passionate about horses like Ali Pasha Sharif and constantly undertakes to raise the best of them. Because he was the richest of the pashas in wealth, and living was affluent in that era, and the wages of the workers were few, so that he used twenty Circassians to serve his horses for a small wage, as each of them took twenty piasters a month except for his food, unlike in our time, one man may be allocated to serve three horses. In this case, he is not expected to perform the well-deserved service that was previously performed during the reign of Ali Pasha Sharif.
He asserts that “it is fortunate in Egypt that Ali Pasha Sharif continued to preserve the horse breeding that Abbas Pasha I started with. Without him, this effect would have perished, and his flame that was lit by Abbas Pasha I was extinguished.”
Ali Pasha Sharif was born in Egypt, where Muhammad Ali Pasha the Great summoned Sayyid Muhammad Sharif – the father of Ali Pasha Sharif – from Qula to Egypt. After that, they held several positions in the Egyptian government during the rule of Muhammad Ali Pasha the Great, then he was appointed governor of the Arab countries, Lebanon and the Levant inclusive.
Ali Pasha received his education at the same school in Khanka where his father received his acquaintances. Then he was sent to France to complete his studies at the Staff School in Paris in the Vendôme district, where his success was brilliant. He was the first in his band.
After that, he was appointed in the French army at the rank of yuzbashi, and served in France, and participated in the 1848 revolution as a staff of war, and quickly rose to the rank of commander of the siege of Paris, then returned to Egypt, and was appointed an admirallay in the Egyptian artillery during the rule of Muhammad Ali Pasha the Great. After the death of his father, he was appointed President of the Egyptian Chamber of Commerce, then Chairman of the Shura Council, and served in the Egyptian government under the rule of its governors, namely: Muhammad Ali Pasha the Great “from 1805 to 1848,” Ibrahim Pasha “from 1848 to 1848, and Abbas Pasha I from “1848 until 1854), Said Pasha from 1854 to 1863, Khedive Ismail from 1863 to 1879, Khedive Tawfiq from 1879 to 1892, and Khedive Abbas Helmy II from 1892 and died during his reign.
Ali Pasha Sharif’s care of horses with the testimony of Prince Muhammad Ali Tawfiq
Prince Muhammad Ali Tawfiq recorded his historical testimony to Ali Pasha Sharif’s care of horses, in his book “A Message on Horses,” by saying: “Ali Bey – who later became Ali Pasha Sharif — bought the largest number of these horses, and some of them were sold to governments.”
Prince Tawfiq added that 18 horses and mares were sold to the French government, two horses to the Australian government, 20 to the Italian government, and two horses to the German government. As for the rest of it, two and three were sold to some Egyptians.
Tawfiq added that Ali Bey bought the largest number of these horses, and established a stable in his palace on “Al Hadara” Street, which connects to Abdel Aziz Street in Cairo today, where he began raising horses after the death of Abbas Pasha I between 1848 and 1864 AD, and he died during the rule of Khedive Abbas Helmy II .
Prince Muhammad Ali Tawfiq returns in his book to the assertion that the Arabian horses that came to the Egyptian country are nothing but the choice of a great, expert and influential man who gained his high royal status, as the good Arab horse reached the height of his glory at that time. And when Abbas Pasha I died, he took care of Pasha Sharif after him by raising horses very carefully.
Tawfiq raised an important issue by saying: “The rich people of Qatar in that era were proud of their horses and their saddles studded with pure gold and pure silver, each according to his capacity,” explaining that in 1880 the price of the Arabian horse that was used in the appeasement and training of soldiers in the fields amounted to three hundred pounds.
Pasha Sharif was agreed to establish the Najib horse breeding department, where he built it from what he bought before and from what he bought from the horses that Ilhami Pasha offered for sale. To King Victor Emmanuel and King of Fürttemberg.
List of Abbas Pasha’s horses bought by Ali Sharif
Ali Pasha Sharif obtained a group of Abbas Pasha I’s horses, which Ilhamy Pasha blessed him with, and Elhamy Pasha granted him 500 acres in the inspection of Mahalla. Here, the secret of Ali Pasha Sharif’s love, the head of the Chamber of Commerce at the time, becomes clear to Ilhami Pasha, and his attempt to preserve his horses.
After the death of Ilhami Pasha, Ali Pasha Sharif tried to buy the largest group of Abbas Pasha’s horses that were offered for sale at an auction in 1961, and he chose the horses based on the advice of Ali Pasha Al-Shamacherji, which are:
Jazia: a mare of Sicily blue color, with walls from the Rolla.
Samha: a Saqlawiya jadari mare, whose father is Barak ibn al-Zubayni from Fadaan, and the Zabini horse is the horse whose image we find sawn and held by a Mamluk.
Ibn Naqadan’s mare: Many write it as a Talluqa Dahman Shahwan horse from Abdullah Ibn Naqadan’s stud from Ajman, and it is true that it is a female and not a male, and it is clear that the matter confused many, as it was called a “shot”.
Noura: It is called a shalfa mare, its color is blue, its lustful greed, produced by Khalil al-Hajar from Bani Hajar of the Murra tribe.
Hegla: a red mare, a lustful demigod from Qahtan.
Shuwayma: descended from Shuwaymah, a swimmer from Otaiba.
Harqa: From the lineage of Kahilan Abu Arqoub.
Jalabiya Faisal: She is the minister from the Kahilan Jalabi breed of horses in Bahrain.
Divorce:
- Al-Zebini: a blue horse, Saqlawi Jadari, born in 1844, from the horses of Barak Ibn Al-Zebini from Fadaan.
- Samhan: Dahman Shahwan’s Horse, produced by Abbas Pasha I.
- Shoiman swimmer: Abbas Pasha I’s production horse.
- Said: Dahman Shahwan’s Horse, produced by Abbas Pasha I.
- Minister of Obli: Khilan Jalabi horse, produced by Bahrain.
- Suwaid: a Saqlawan blue horse with the walls of the Rolla.
Ali Sherif buys Abbas Pasha’s favorite raspberries
Ali Pasha Sharif, during his purchase of Abbas Pasha I’s horses, made sure to buy the same two halters that Abbas Pasha I preferred, and they are the main halters of his horses.
It is clear that Ali Pasha Al-Shamacherji, who advised Ali Pasha Al-Sharif to acquire this group of horses, was also in love with these two halters. Abbas Pasha I sent him more than 20 times to the Arabian Peninsula; To bring horses to the stables of Abbas Pasha.
He believed that “it is fortunate for Egypt that the horses that Ali Pasha Sharif bought were among the best horses, and they remained in Egypt, and thus he continued what Abbas Pasha had begun to raise the finest Arab horses, and they were at the top of their status with the rich of Egypt who were buying them to pretend to be oppressed.” With its silver and gold saddles, it goes and goes to the streets of Egypt, and the average price of a horse was 300 Egyptian pounds in gold.
It is known that had it not been for Ali Pasha Sharif’s long life, the light of Egypt’s fame in the matter of Arabian horses would have been extinguished.
Ali Pasha Sharif leaves his palace and resides in the horse stable annex
Despite the enormity of Ali Pasha Sharif’s palace with 500 balconies, he left it, and was staying permanently in a residence attached to the horse stable.
The palace was surrounded by a walled garden, and it dominated the whole street, and the approach to the palace gate was well suited to the strong condition of the pasha, and the parapet from right to left was made of trees, and the garden was well secured down the stepping slope of a road that one of them stopped in front of a huge gate, and there was a gate Smaller to receive people less able to drive to the pasha’s courtyard. The courtyard was long, and at the end of it a wall stood near two tall trees.
One might wonder about its size in expanding its innumerable intertwined roots and broad-leaved shade area, and “Blant” did not fail to notice the wonderful trees during the visit, and most of the very simple details, and the eye was easily attracted by entering into another courtyard more beautiful, coordinated and presented Guarded by the vine, which climbed all around the wall and the arch that bound it, and when one entered the first courtyard, one was ascertained by the size of the building and by the degree to which it was impermissible on both sides. The palace pavilion was made of glass on the other side of the courtyard.
In the stables there were many white boxers, which included a group of priceless Ali Pasha’s horses, and the garden was as beautiful as the palace, not different from it in anything. It was full of flowers, vine-covered trees in the pergola, and cacao trees harmoniously intertwined. In fact it was an entire grandiose scheme, and its backdrop suited the most numerous group of desert horses in the world at the time.
Ali Pasha Sharif collected 400 of the best Arab horses around the world, however, the horse plague invaded Egypt, and wiped out many good breeds, and only those horses he sent to Upper Egypt were rescued.
The most famous horse Weser in Egypt, undefeated on the track at all distances, was one of the horses that survived the ravages of the plague.
What did Lady Blunt say about Ali Pasha al-Sharif’s horses?
Lady Anne Blunt says about the horses of Ali Pasha Sherif in her memoirs: I was very excited to meet Ali Pasha Sherif, when I went to his stables, I found most of the divorced ones are blue, and I saw the vizier horse, his father Al-Zebini and his mother Jazia, who was 18 years old, and I also saw the horse Schweiman, his father Jerboa and his mother Shuwayma, and he was a distinguished horse, with a very beautiful head, and I saw the horse Aziz, a blond horse. His father is the horse Harqan, and his mother is Aziza. The four-legged Mahjal had an enlarged hock, and he used it on Pasha Sharif, when he was three years old, as a stable horse. He was curious to see whether The four partridges will be inherited, and this is the secret of the Pasha’s urgency in his divorce, as Ali Pasha did not like to bequeath the partridge, and if the horse bequeathed the partridge, he would have dispensed with it, and the horse was four years old during the visit, and the hock swelling is not inherited; Because it is an injury.
Lady Anne Blunt points out in her memoirs that she was fascinated by the mare she saw. She snatched her heart from a free mare, a blue mare, and this mare is the sister of the horse, the Minister of Saqlawi al-Jadari. The grandmother later died during the horse plague.
What did Lady Blunt say about Ali Pasha al-Sharif’s horses?
Lady Anne Blunt says about the horses of Ali Pasha Sherif in her memoirs: I was very excited to meet Ali Pasha Sherif, when I went to his stables, I found most of the divorced ones are blue, and I saw the vizier horse, his father Al-Zebini and his mother Jazia, who was 18 years old, and I also saw the horse Schweiman, his father Jerboa and his mother Shuwayma, and he was a distinguished horse, with a very beautiful head, and I saw the horse Aziz, a blond horse. His father is the horse Harqan, and his mother is Aziza. The four-legged Mahjal had an enlarged hock, and he used it on Pasha Sharif, when he was three years old, as a stable horse. He was curious to see whether The four partridges will be inherited, and this is the secret of the Pasha’s urgency in his divorce, as Ali Pasha did not like to bequeath the partridge, and if the horse bequeathed the partridge, he would have dispensed with it, and the horse was four years old during the visit, and the hock swelling is not inherited; Because it is an injury.
Lady Anne Blunt points out in her memoirs that she was fascinated by the mare she saw. She snatched her heart from a free mare, a blue mare, and this mare is the sister of the horse, the Minister of Saqlawi al-Jadari. The grandmother later died during the horse plague.
Blunt adds: Ali Pasha Sharif promised us six books of his horses, which numbered more than 100 horses, but he did not fulfill this promise, as he was not willing to give information or disclose his horses he owned, whether the horses he took from Abbas Pasha, Or the horses he brought from the Arabian Peninsula.