Sultan Hussein Kamel was the Sultan of Egypt from 19 December 1914 to 9 October 1917, during the British protectorate over Egypt. He was the first person to hold the title of Sultan of Egypt since the killing of Sultan Tuman II by the Ottomans in 1517 following their conquest of Egypt.
Portrait by Charles Chusseau-Flaviens
Tomb of Sultan Hussein Kamel at the Al-Rifa'i Mosque in Cairo
Sultan of Egypt was the status held by the rulers of Egypt after the establishment of the Ayyubid dynasty of Saladin in 1174 until the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 1517. Though the extent of the Egyptian Sultanate ebbed and flowed, it generally included Sham and Hejaz, with the consequence that the Ayyubid and later Mamluk sultans were also regarded as the Sultans of Syria. From 1914, the title was once again used by the heads of the Muhammad Ali dynasty of Egypt and Sudan, later being replaced by the title of King of Egypt and Sudan in 1922.
Painting from 1779 of a councilor to the Sultan of Egypt during Mamluk rule.
Hussein Kamel, Sultan of Egypt, 1914–1917.
Image: Silver dirham of Aybak
Image: Gold dinar of al Mansur Nur ad Din Ali