al-Muwayliḥī, Ibrāhīm - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Allen, Roger
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Ibrāhīm al-Muwayliḥī (1846-1906) was an Egyptian political journalist and writer born into a wealthy Egyptian family of silk merchants. When his father died in 1865 Ibrāhīm and his younger brother, ʿAbd al-Salām, took over the administration of the family business. In the same year a long association between Ibrāhīm and the Egyptian khedive Ismāʿīl (r. 1863-79) began when the latter appointed Ibrāhīm to positions on the Council of Merchants and in the Court of First Instance. In 1868 Ibrāhīm helped found a publishing house, the first