Ahmad Izzat Pasha bin Hawlu Pasha al-Abid (Arabic: أحمد عزت باشا بن هولو باشا العابد, romanized: Aḥmad ʻIzzat Bāshā bin Hawlū Bāshā al-ʻĀbid; Turkish: Holo[a] Paşa'nın oğlu Ahmed İzzet Paşa el-Abid or Abidzade Ahmed İzzet Paşa;[1] 1851–1924), nicknamed Izzat Pasha the Arab[2] (Turkish: Arap İzzet Paşa), was a Syrian entrepreneur who became Second Secretary and confidant of Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II. He is considered to have been "one of the most powerful" statesmen during the last decade of Abdulhamid's rule.[3]
The Victoria Bridge and Hotel over the Barada in the 1870s
Abid accumulated great wealth during his life. He was also a businessman and owned numerous enterprises or buildings including the largest tourist hotel in Syria at the time, the Victoria Hotel in Damascus.[citation needed]
^Holo (instead of Hevlu) is a transcription of the Syrian pronunciation of the name هولو (Hawlū).
Referencesedit
^Dünden bugüne İstanbul ansiklopedisi (in Turkish). Vol. 7. 1993. p. 393.
^ abOsmanoğlu, Ayşe (1991). Avec mon père le sultan Abdulhamid (in French). p. 34. ISBN9782296241763.
^Hahn, Steven Michael (1998). The Roots of Turkish Nationalism.
Bibliographyedit
Commins, David Dean (2004). "Abid, Ahmad Izzat al- (1851–1924)". Historical Dictionary of Syria (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. pp. 21–22. ISBN9780810849341.
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