Ibrahim Al Hilbawi
Born1858
Kafr El Dawwar
Died20 December 1940 (aged 81–82)
Alma materAl Azhar University
OccupationLawyer
Years active1870s–1940
Known forFirst president of the Bar Association in Egypt

Ibrahim Al Hilbawi (1858–1940) was an Egyptian jurist and politician. He is known for being the first president of the Bar Association.

Early life and education

Al Hilbawi born in Kafr El Dawwar in 1858 into a Maghribi-origin family.[1][2] His father was a merchant and farmer.[3] Ibrahim received a degree in law from Al Azhar University.[1] He became a follower of Jamal al Din Al Afghani whom he met in 1873.[1][4]

Career and political activities

After his graduation Al Hilbawi began to work as a lawyer in Tanta.[1] He worked as a deputy editor of the official publication Journal Officiel of which the editor-in-chief was Muhammad Abduh.[5] Al Hilbawi was the prosecuting lawyer in the trial of the Denshawai incident in 1906.[6] He took part in the establishment of the Ummah Party in 1907.[1]

Al Hilbawi became a member of the Muslim Benevolent Society.[5] He was the prosecuting lawyer in the trial of Ibrahim Nasif Al Wardani who assassinated Boutros Ghali, Prime Minister of Egypt, in 1910.[7] He was elected as the first president of the Bar Association in November 1912.[2][8] He joined the Liberal Constitutional Party in the 1920s.[1]

Personal life and death

Al Hilbawi married in Kafr El Dawwar in 1880.[3] After divorcing her in 1888 he married with a slave girl from the harem of Princess Jamila who was the daughter of Khedive Ismail.[3] His second wife died next year, and he married again, but it ended in divorce soon.[3] Al Hiblavi married for the fourth time in 1897.[3] He died on 20 December 1940.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Donald M. Reid (1974). "The National Bar Association and Egyptian Politics, 1912-1954". International Journal of African Historical Studies. 7 (4): 613–615. doi:10.2307/216598. JSTOR 216598.
  2. 1 2 Arthur Goldschmidt, ed. (2000). Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt. Boulder, CO; London: Lynne Rienner Publisher. p. 78. ISBN 978-1-55587-229-8.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Kenneth M. Cuno (2015). Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-8156-5316-5.
  4. ↑ A. Albert Kudsi-Zadeh (January–March 1972). "Afghānī and Freemasonry in Egypt". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 92 (1): 25–35. doi:10.2307/599645. JSTOR 599645.
  5. 1 2 Charles C. Adams (2013). Islam and modernism in Egypt. New York: Russell & Russell. pp. 210–211. ISBN 978-5-88433-477-9.
  6. 1 2 Hoda A. Yousef (2022). "The Other Legacy of Qasim Amin: The View from 1908". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 54 (3): 8. doi:10.1017/S0020743822000344. S2CID 249073659.
  7. ↑ Kristin Shawn Tassin (2014). Egyptian Nationalism, 1882-1919: Elite Competition, Transnational Networks, Empire, and Independence (PhD thesis). University of Texas at Austin. p. 35. hdl:2152/28411.
  8. ↑ Walid Kazzihe (1970). The Evolution of the Egyptian Political Elite, 1907-1921: A Case Study of the Role of the Large Landowners in Politics (PhD thesis). SOAS, University of London. p. 182. doi:10.25501/SOAS.00033836.
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