Isma'il Pasha Abu Jabal

Ismail Abu Jabal

Native name
إسماعيل أبو جبل
Born1234 AH
Elâzığ, Ottoman Empire
Died17 Jumada al-Thani 1300 AH
Cairo, Khedivate of Egypt
Allegiance Egypt Eyalet
Khedivate of Egypt
Service/branch/ Egyptian Armed Forces
Battles/warsWahhabi War
Crimean War

'Amir al-Liwa' Ismail Pasha Abu Jabal (Egyptian Arabic: إسماعيل باشا أبو جبل) (1234 AH – 17 Jumada al-Thani 1300 AH) was an Egyptian military and political leader who lived in the nineteenth century. He participated as a brigade commander in the Crimean War, which the Egyptian army fought alongside the armies of the Ottoman Empire, and then the wāli of Egypt, Sa'id Pasha, assigned him - on Muharram 15, 1272 AH, corresponding to September 27, 1855 AD - to lead the Egyptian armies in the Crimea after Ahmad Pasha al-Munkali was excused due to ill health.[1]

  1. ^ Prince Omar Toussoun, الجيش المصري في الحرب الروسية المعروفة بحرب القرم (1853-1855). سلسلة "صفحات من تاريخ مصر", second edition, Madbouly Library, Cairo, 1996