Muhammad Ali dynasty
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The Muhammad Ali dynasty was the ruling house of Egypt and Sudan from 1805 until its abolition in 1953. It is named after its progenitor, Muhammad Ali, regarded as the founder of modern Egypt.
King Farouk I
Farouk of Egypt
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Farouk I was the tenth ruler of Egypt from the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt and the Sudan, succeeding his father, Fuad I, in 1936 and reigning until his overthrow in a milita
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…Sudan. To both the King and the nationalist movement, this was intolerable, and the Egyptian Government made a point of stressing that Fuad and his son King Farouk I were "King of Egypt and Sudan". The reign of Farouk was characterised by ever increasing nationalist discontent over the continuing British occupation…
Official portrait, 1946
Farouk I, c. 1937
Farouk saluting Egyptian citizens assembled in Abdeen Square in Cairo, c. 1937
Coin issuance after Farouk's coronation, 1937