{{Short description|Prime Minister of Egypt (1879, 1881–1882, 1882–1884)}} {{other people||Muhammed Sharif (disambiguation)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Mohamed Sherif | image = Muhammad Sharif Pasha.JPG | honorific_suffix = Pasha |order=3rd
| office = Prime Minister of Egypt | monarch = Isma'il Pasha<br>Tewfik Pasha | term_start = 7 April 1879 | term_end = 18 August 1879 | predecessor = Tewfik Pasha | successor = Tewfik Pasha | office2 = | monarch2 = Tewfik Pasha | term_start2 = 14 September 1881 | term_end2 = 4 February 1882 | predecessor2 = Riaz Pasha | successor2 = Mahmoud Samy el-Baroudy | office3 = | monarch3 = Tewfik Pasha | term_start3 = 21 August 1882 | term_end3 = 7 January 1884 | predecessor3 = Isma'il Raghib Pasha | successor3 = Nubar Pasha | birth_date = February 1826 | birth_place = Kavala, Rumelia Eyalet, Ottoman Empire | death_date = 20 April 1887 <small>(aged 61)</small> | death_place = Graz, Austria-Hungary | spouse = Nazli al-Faransawi Hanim | children = Tawfika Sherif Hanim (wife of Abdel Rahim Sabri Pasha, Governor of Cairo) | parents = Muhammad Said, Kadi of Mecca | native_name_lang = ar | native_name = {{nobold|محمد شريف}} | caption = Sherif in 1850 }} '''Mohamed Sherif Pasha''' GCSI{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} (February 1826 – 20 April 1887) ({{langx|ar|محمد شريف باشا}}) was an Egyptian statesman.<ref name="ArthurGold">{{cite book|last=Goldschmidt|first=Arthur|year=2000|title=Biographical dictionary of modern Egypt|publisher=Lynne Rienner Publishers|page=[https://archive.org/details/00jrgo/page/191 191]|isbn=1-55587-229-8|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/00jrgo/page/191}}</ref> He served as Prime Minister of Egypt three times during his career. His first term was between 7 April 1879 and 18 August 1879. His second term was served from 14 September 1881 to 4 February 1882. His final term was served between 21 August 1882 and 7 January 1884.
== Biography == Sherif, who was a born in 1887 in Kavala in the Ottoman Empire (now in Greece),<ref name="ArthurGold"/> filled numerous administrative posts under Sa'id Pasha and Isma'il Pasha. He was better educated than most of his contemporaries, and had married Nazli al-Faransawi Hanim, a daughter of Colonel Joseph Anthelme Sèves, the French non-commissioned officer who became Suleiman Pasha under Mehmet Ali, and wife Maria Myriam Hanem.<ref name=EB1911>{{EB1911 |wstitle=Sherif Pasha |volume=24 |page=850 |inline=1}}</ref> They were the maternal grandparents of Queen consort Nazli of Egypt and Regent Sherif Sabri Pasha.<ref name="EBE">{{cite book |title= Egypt's Belle Epoque: Cairo and the Age of the Hedonists |last= Mostyn |first= Trevor |year= 2006 |publisher= Tauris Parke Paperbacks |isbn=9781845112400 |quote= Sulaiman Pasha made an eccentric figure ... Born in Lyon in 1788, he lived to the age of seventy-two with his favourite Greek mistress, dying in Cairo on 12 March 1860. His daughter, Nazli Hanem, married '''Muhammad Sherif Pasha''', who was to become an important prime minister under Ismail. Their granddaughter, the beautiful, domineering Nazli Sabri, was to marry King Fouad and give birth to the last of the dynasty, King Farouk. |pages=27–28 }}</ref>
As minister of foreign affairs he was useful to Ismail, who used Sherif's easy going attitude to veil many of his proposals.<ref name=EB1911/>
Sherif's favorite argument against any reform was to appeal to the Pyramids as an immutable proof of the solidity of Egypt financially and politically. His optimism rendered him largely responsible for the collapse of Egyptian credit which brought about the fall of Ismail.<ref name=EB1911/>
Upon the military insurrection of September 1881 under Urabi Pasha, Sherif was summoned by the khedive Tawfiq to form a new ministry. The impossibility of reconciling the financial requirements of the national party with the demands of the British and French controllers of the public debt, compelled him to resign in the following February.<ref name=EB1911/>
After the suppression of the Urabi Revolt he was again installed in office (August 1882) by Tawfiq, but in January 1884 he resigned rather than sanction the evacuation of the Sudanese regions of the Khedivate of Egypt. As to the strength of the Mahdist movement he had then no conception. When urged by Sir Evelyn Baring (Lord Cromer) early in 1883 to abandon some of the more distant parts of the Sudan, he replied with characteristic light-heartedness: "''Nous en causerons plus tard; d'abord nous allons donner une bonne raclée à ce monsieur''" (We'll talk about that later, first we're going to give this gentleman (i.e. the self declared Mahdi, Muhammad Ahmad) a good thrashing). Hicks Pasha's expedition was at the time preparing to march on El Obeid.<ref name=EB1911/>
Sherif died in Graz, Austria-Hungary, on 20 April 1887.
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