Ahmad Izzat Pasha al-Abid

Ahmad Izzat Pasha bin Hawlu Pasha al-Abid (Arabic: أحمد عزت باشا بن هولو باشا العابد, romanized: Aḥmad ʻIzzat Bāshā bin Hawlū Bāshā al-ʻĀbid; Turkish: Holo[a] Paşa'nın oğlu Ahmed İzzet Paşa el-Abid or Abidzade Ahmed İzzet Paşa;[1] 1851–1924), nicknamed Izzat Pasha the Arab[2] (Turkish: Arap İzzet Paşa), was a Syrian entrepreneur who became Second Secretary and confidant of Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II.

He moved to Istanbul where he served the Ottoman sultan, Abdulhamid II as an adviser.

He left the Ottoman Empire following the Young Turk Revolution in 1908 and moved to London for some time before living in France and Switzerland.

[citation needed] Abid accumulated great wealth during his life.

[citation needed] He was the father of Muhammad Ali Bay al-Abid, who served as the first president of the mandatory Syrian Republic.

The Victoria Bridge and Hotel over the Barada in the 1870s