Muhammad ali pasha biography of mahatma

In this short essay the author tries to explain the motivation and reasons for Mohamed Ali's behaviour and how it affected his tremendous achievements.

Muhammad ali pasha biography of mahatma: Kavalali Mehmed Ali Pasha

We go back Formal portrait of Mohamed Ali in the possession of the author's family. Under his rule Egypt was transformed from a failed Ottoman province into an extremely well organised, prosperous and powerful regional state. He achieved incredible results through wise and determined administration, but also with the help and assistance of a large foreign community he invited to participate in this exhilarating endeavour.

His legacy is still very rich today, but often misunderstood or misinterpreted. This is a modest attempt at putting this record straight. Prince Mohamed Ali Tewfik in one of his many books, Emine Tugay in "Three Centuries" the dynasty ruled for roughly two centuries and she goes back another to the family origins and Nevine Yousry in "Kismet" all refer to the family originating in a village in Eastern Turkey called Ilic.

In one of his many letters to his son Ibrahim Pasha, Mohamed Ali refers to Izzet Pasha the Ottoman admiral of the fleet who defected to Mohamed Ali as someone "from our region". Izzet Pasha was born in the district which includes the village of Ilic. King Farouk commissioned a historical research team and asked them to document the family origins, but they failed.

Their main problem was that all the local documents were housed at the Vilayet provincial capital of Erzincan and the town was wiped out by a very powerful earthquake in The local record office collapsed and caught fire, nothing could be rescued.