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Muhammad Ali [a] (4 March 1769 – 2 August 1849) was an Albanian [3] governor and military commander who was the de facto ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, considered the founder of modern Egypt. At the height of his rule, he controlled Egypt, Sudan, Hejaz, Najd, the Levant, Crete and parts of Greece .
Jul 17, 2024 · Muḥammad ʿAlī was the pasha and viceroy of Egypt (1805–48), founder of the dynasty that ruled Egypt from the beginning of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th. He encouraged the emergence of the modern Egyptian state.
Mar 28, 2008 · The period of Muhammad ’Ali’s reign, which started in 1805 when he was appointed by the Ottoman sultan as wali of Egypt and ended in 1848 with his deposition as a result of mental illness, offers one of the most interesting epochs of modern Egyptian history.
Muḥammad ʿAlī, (born 1769, Kavala, Macedonia, Ottoman Empire—died Aug. 2, 1849, Alexandria, Egypt), Viceroy of Egypt (1805–48) for the Ottoman Empire and founder of the dynasty that ruled Egypt until 1953.
Muhammad Ali, Pasha the Great (Arabic: محمد علي باشا; many spelling variations, including Turkish language Mehmet Ali) (1769 - August 2, 1849), was a viceroy of Egypt, and is sometimes considered the founder of modern Egypt.
Learn about Muhammad Ali Pasha, an Ottoman Turkish military leader who ruled Egypt for much of his adult life and modernized its economy and education. Find out how he fought against the Mamluks, the British, the Wahhabis, and the Sultan, and how he established cotton as a key crop in Egypt.
2 days ago · Egypt - Muhammad Ali, Successors, 1805-82: In May 1805 a revolt broke out in Cairo against the Ottoman viceroy, Khūrshīd Pasha. The ʿulamāʾ invested Muḥammad ʿAlī as viceroy. For some weeks there was street fighting, and Khūrshīd was besieged in the citadel.
