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| name          = Mohamed Naguib <br> {{lang|ar|محمد نجيب}}
(contracted; show full) a house decorated with hunting trophies like elephant tusks, tiger-skin rugs and rhinoceros and gazelle heads on the wall. Naguib's favourite game, however, was playing at soldiers with his younger brother, Ali. Having built a toy fortress in the front yard, Naguib would spend hours conquering inches of land with his toy soldiers.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}}

Nevertheless, Naguib's father did not want his sons to follow in his footsteps, believing from his own experience as an officer in 
[[the [[Egyptian aArmy]] that the army at that time was little more than a group of auxiliaries waiting for the [[British Army|British King's Army]] orders. He believed that Naguib could serve Egypt better in civilian life, and he even had Ibrahim Urabi, son of the 1882 revolutionary [[Ahmed Urabi]], speak to Naguib and caution him that by joining the military he would become only "a supervisor in the service of the British."

As a result, Naguib first studied to become a translator, and later in his life earned a law degree, an ⏎
[[Master of Arts]] degree (MA) in [[political science]] and another MA in [[Civil law (legal system)|civil law]]. He never completed his doctorate because his career in the army, undertaken in defiance of his father's wishes, by then had begun to take off. Nevertheless, he found the time to polish his language skills, learning [[English language|English]], [[French language|French]], [[Italian language|Italian]] and [[German language|German]]. Naguib also began to study the revived [[Hebrew language]] in the 1950s, and soon after the Revolution he ordered that Hebrew be taught at military college and at [[Cairo and University |Cairo]] and [[Alexandria University|Alexandria universities]], realising that the Egyptian aArmy had been handicapped during the [[1948 Arab-Israeli War]] by the fact that very few soldiers could interpret [[Israeli Defense Force|Israeli military]] communications.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}}

While studying in [[Khartoum]], Naguib had often been censured and sometimes even whipped by his British tutors for criticizing Britain's occupation of [[Egypt]] and [[Sudan]]. At this time, Naguib chose French Emperor [[Napoleon]] as a role model, even deciding to sleep on the floor instead of on a bed to imitate the great French general. Soon, however, Napoleon was replaced in Naguib's affections by [[Mustafa Kamil Pasha|Mustafa Kamil]], the founder of the [[National Democratic Party (Egypt)|National Democratic Party]], and later he found another mirror in [[Saad Zaghlul]]. Some years after he was ousted from power, Naguib also came to somewhat admire [[Gandhi|Mohandas Gandhi]] of [[India]].

After the death of his father in 1916, the family moved to [[Cairo]], while Naguib and Ali finished their studies in Sudan.

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