ISLA 300 Lecture 8: ISLA300 - Reforms of Mehmed Ali

• School: McGill University
• Department: Islamic Studies
• Course: ISLA 300
• Professor: Sumeyra Gurbuzel

Document Summary

Reforms of mehmed ali (egypt: mehmed ali pasha. Mehmed ali pasha was considered the founder of modern egypt, but really was an influential governor exercising control over egypt. He was mainly known to have implemented diverse military, educational and economic reforms in egypt: greek speaking subject from kavala (an ethnically mixed area of greeks and albanians). *considered as albanian, fluent in greek and no knowledge of the arabic language: modest soldier, working for his uncle who was a local ayan, and helped collect taxes. In the beginning of the 19th century, the french occupation in egypt led the ottoman ruler to sent troops as a retaliation. = mehmed ali was sent as a head of troops, part of the balkan contingents to fight against the french. *occupation short, but it required a considerable amount of man power from the ottomans (even with the british involvement): french occupation of egypt.