Fuad I (
Fu’ad al-Awwal, ; 26 March 1868 - 28 April 1936) was the
Sultan and later
King of
Egypt and
Sudan, Sovereign of
Nubia,
Kordofan, and
Darfur. The ninth ruler of Egypt and Sudan from the
Muhammad Ali dynasty, he became Sultan of Egypt and Sudan in 1917, succeeding his elder brother Sultan
Hussein Kamel. He substituted the title of King for Sultan when the United Kingdom
recognised Egyptian independence in 1922. His name is sometimes spelled
Fouad.