Aḥmad Māhir

Aḥmad Māhir (born 1888—died February 24, 1945, Cairo, Egypt) was an Egyptian jurist and politician who was premier of Egypt from 1944 to 1945. Māhir was educated at the Khedivial Law school and the University of Montpellier in France. A younger brother of ʿAlī Māhir, who had on three previous occasions been premier of Egypt, Aḥmad occupied a number of important government positions from the early 1920s. Early in his career, Māhir was strongly nationalistic...