King Egypt Sultan Hussein Kamal Signed Royal Sultanate Document Egyptian Royalty

Description: LOT-G413. For your consideration is an exceedingly rare and historically important original antique c.1916 royal Egyptian Sultanate manuscript land grant royal court decree document in the name of Sultan Hussein Kamal of Egypt, hand-signed by Sultan Kamal with his royal negative seal signature stamp. Royal Egypt document consists of (4) handwritten pages of Islamic calligraphy text on a single leaf of laid paper. Original marks / folds. Royal Egyptian Sultanate document is handwritten on official Sultanate stationary letterhead, featuring an embossed royal Tughra of Sultan Kamal of Egypt. Royal land grant court decree document measures approximately 12.75" x 17.25". Museum quality. One of a kind. Authentic and correct. Sultan Hussein Kamel (Egyptian Arabic: ; 21 November 1853 9 October 1917) 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. Hussein Kamel was the second son of Khedive Ismail Pasha, who ruled Egypt from 1863 to 1879. He was declared Sultan of Egypt on 19 December 1914, after the occupying British forces had deposed his nephew, Khedive Abbas Hilmi II, on 5 November 1914. Though presented as the re-establishment of the pre-Ottoman Egyptian sultanate, the newly created Sultanate of Egypt was to be a British protectorate, with effective political and military power vested in British officials. This brought to an end the de jure Ottoman sovereignty over Egypt, which had been largely nominal since Muhammad Ali's seizure of power in 1805. Upon Hussein Kamel's death, his only son, Prince Kamal el Dine Hussein, declined the succession, and Hussein Kamel's brother Ahmed Fuad ascended the throne as Fuad I. At the beginning of Naguib Mahfouz's novel Palace Walk, Ahmad Abd al-Jawwad says "What a fine man Prince Kamal al-Din Husayn is! Do you know what he did? He refused to ascend the throne of his late father so long as the British are in charge." Stereoscope photographs of the coronation procession and burial procession of Sultan Hussein are available on the Rare Books and Special Collections Digital Library of the American University in Cairo.

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