Muhammad Ali of Egypt
Wali of Egypt and Sudan (1769–1849)
- Fame63.7
- Momentum9.0
- Turkey rank#148
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- Fame63.7
- Momentum9.0
- Turkey rank#148
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Lived 1769–1849, aged 80Turkey
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An Albanian tobacco merchant's son who arrived in Egypt chasing Napoleon's ghost and seized control of an entire province—then spent four decades modernizing it into an empire, twice marching his armies to the gates of Constantinople and forcing the sultan who employed him to negotiate.
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Born in 1769 in an Albanian village, Muhammad Ali moved to Kavala where his father served as an Ottoman commander and tobacco merchant. He arrived in Egypt in 1801 as a military officer in an Albanian force sent to expel the French after Napoleon's withdrawal, and through calculated political maneuvering, was named governor and Pasha by 1805. He consolidated power through a violent purge of the Mamluks and set about transforming Egypt with sweeping military, economic and cultural reforms. He recaptured Arabian territories for the sultan and conquered Sudan independently, but his forces were cr…
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