Egyptian Field marshal and former statesman (1935–2021)
Field Marshal
Hussein Tantawi حسين طنطاوي
Tantawi in 2002
Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces
In office 11 February 2011 – 30 June 2012
Prime Minister
Ahmed Shafik
Essam Sharaf
Kamal Ganzouri
Deputy
Sami Anan
Preceded by
Hosni Mubarak (as President)
Succeeded by
Mohamed Morsi (as President)
Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement
In office 11 February 2011 – 30 June 2012
Preceded by
Hosni Mubarak
Succeeded by
Mohamed Morsi
Minister of Defense and Military Production
In office 20 May 1991 – 12 August 2012
Prime Minister
Atef Sedki
Kamal Ganzouri
Atef Ebeid
Ahmed Nazif
Ahmed Shafik
Essam Sharaf
Kamal Ganzouri
Hesham Qandil
Preceded by
Sabri Abu Taleb
Succeeded by
Abdul Fatah al-Sisi
Personal details
Born
(1935-10-31)31 October 1935 Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt
Died
21 September 2021(2021-09-21) (aged 85) Cairo, Egypt[1]
Political party
Independent
Alma mater
Egyptian Military Academy
Awards
Liberation Order
United Arab Republic Anniversary Order
Distinguished Service Order
Order of the Nile
Military service
Allegiance
Egypt
Branch/service
Egyptian Army
Years of service
1955–2012
Rank
Field Marshal
Commands
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces
Battles/wars
Suez Crisis
North Yemen Civil War
Six-Day War
War of Attrition
Yom Kippur War
Gulf War
Sinai insurgency
Muhammad Hussein Tantawi Soliman (Arabic: محمد حسين طنطاوي سليمان, romanized: Muḥammad Ḥusayn Ṭanṭāwī Sulaymān; 31 October 1935 – 21 September 2021) was an Egyptian field marshal and politician. He was the commander-in-chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces[2] and, as chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, was the de facto head of state from the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak on 11 February 2011 until the inauguration of Mohamed Morsi as president of Egypt on 30 June 2012.
Tantawi served in the government as Minister of Defense and Military Production from 1991 until Morsi ordered him to retire on 12 August 2012.
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Muhammad Hussein Tantawi Soliman (Arabic: محمد حسين طنطاوي سليمان, romanized: Muḥammad Ḥusayn Ṭanṭāwī Sulaymān; 31 October 1935 – 21 September 2021) was...
Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy (Arabic: محمد سيد طنطاوي; 28 October 1928 – 10 March 2010), also referred to as Tantawi, was an influential Islamic scholar in...
President. Owing to the non-Egyptian ancestry of Muhammad Ali Pasha (the progenitor of the Muhammad Ali dynasty), and the earlier dynasties that had governed...
limiting presidential power. On 12 August 2012, Morsi asked Mohamad Hussein Tantawi, head of the country's armed forces, and Sami Hafez Anan, the Army chief...
chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Field Marshal MuhammadTantawi. Mohamed Morsi took office on 30 June 2012, after being elected by...
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Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, led by Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, assumed executive control of the state. On 30 June 2012, the Muslim...
Muhammad Anwar es-Sadat (25 December 1918 – 6 October 1981) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the third president of Egypt...
Forces (SCAF). The military junta, headed by effective head of state MuhammadTantawi, announced on 13 February that the constitution is suspended, both...
Egypt's Minister of War in July 1952. His ancestors had relations to the Muhammad Ali dynasty. Chirine was born in Alexandria on 17 October 1919 to Hussein...
List of French governors of Egypt (1798–1801) List of monarchs of the Muhammad Ali dynasty (1805–1953) List of British colonial heads of Egypt (1798–1936)...
Ahmed Mohamed Ramadan Tantawi known as Ahmed Tantawi also: Al-Tantawy (Arabic: أحمد محمد رمضان الطنطاوي; born 25 July 1979) is an Egyptian politician and...
Library of Egypt. He read the Qur'an, the sayings of Muhammad, the lives of the Sahaba (Muhammad's companions), the biographies of nationalist leaders...
seat on the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. Askar's former deputy, Muhammad Abdullah, was appointed commander, and Tarek Anwar Helal the chief of staff...
the military coup that overthrew King Farouk in 1952 and brought General Muhammad Naguib and Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser to power. The following year, Amer...
handed by departing President Mubarak on 11 February 2011. Only Hussein Tantawi ranked ahead of Anan on the armed forces website and in the Council at...
Egypt's personnel was around 35,000 soldiers. Egyptian leaders included MuhammadTantawi, Mohammed Ali Bilal and Sami Anan. The French personnel was around...
sent to Saudi Arabia. Osama bin Laden interpreted the Islamic prophet Muhammad as banning the "permanent presence of infidels in Arabia". In 1996, bin...
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