Ruler
Muhammad Naguib
First president of the Republic of Egypt
1953 – 1954
His presidency; he lived 1901–1984.
Biography
An army general who fronted the Free Officers’ movement in 1952 and became the first president of the republic in 1953. He fell out with Gamal Abdel Nasser, was removed in 1954, and was kept under house arrest for many years.
Key facts
Certainty: Established
Muhammad Naguib was removed from the presidency in 1954 after a power struggle with Nasser.
- Joel Gordon (1992) “Nasser’s Blessed Movement: Egypt’s Free Officers and the July Revolution” Oxford University Press