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  Ali Pasha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ali Pashë Tepelena, commonly known as Ali Pasha, (1741 – January 24, 1822) was the military ruler (pasha) of a large area of the Ottoman Empire's European territories.
Ali was born into a powerful clan in the Albanian town of Tepelenë in 1744, where his father Veli was bey (leader).
Ali became a notorious brigand leader and attracted the attention of the Turkish authorities.
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 History of Ottoman Egypt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The pasha was ordered either to hand over the executioners to vengeance or to resign his place; as he refused to do the former he was compelled to do the latter, and presently a rescript came from Constantinople, approving the conduct of the army and appointing one Khalil Pasha as Musas successor.
Ali Bey intended at first to defend himself so long as possible in the citadel at Cairo; but receiving information to the effect that his friend ~hir of Acre was still willing to give him refuge, he left Cairo for Syria (April 8, 1772), one day before the entrance of Abul-Dhahab.
Ali's forces were successful at the first engagement; but when the battle was renewed two days later he was deserted by some of his officers, and prevented by illness and wounds from himself taking the conduct of affairs.
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 Mehemet Ali (Turkey) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mehemet Ali, Pasha (1815 – September 6, 1871) was an Ottoman statesman.
Mehemet Ali was born at Constantinople, the son of a government official.
Ali Pasha was one of the most zealous advocates of the introduction of Western reforms under the sultans Abdul Mejid and Abdul Aziz.
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 ALI PASHA - LoveToKnow Article on ALI PASHA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Ali had watched with interest the career of Bonaparte in Italy, and the treaty of Campo Formio (1797), which blotted the Venetian republic from the map of Europe, gave him the opportunity he desired.
Once more Ali turned Turk and fought against his recent friends with such success that in the end he remained in possession of Butrinto, Prevesa and Vonitza on the coast, was created pasha " of three tails " by the sultan, and received the congratulations of Nelson.
Ali's authority in the great part of the peninsula subject to him now overshadowed that of the sultan; and Mahmud II., whose whole policy had been directed to destroying the overgrown power of the provincial pashas, began to seek a pretext for overthrowing the Lion of Iannina,whose all-devouring ambition seemed to threaten his own throne.
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 Muhammad Ali on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
1977); A. Marsot, Egypt in the Reign of Muhammad Ali (1984).
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 Mohammed Ali Pasha of Egypt, Syria & Arabia
Mohammed Ali Pasha, was born in the year of the Hijrah, 1182, corresponding in the Christian era, to the year, 1769.
Ibrahim Agha, the father of Mohammed Ali, was the chief of police in the town of Kavallë.
In the city of Kutahya of Asia Minor, in the spring of 1833, the commissioners, envoys of England, France, and Russia, concluded an armistice and convention, for the evacuation of Anatolia.
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 AllRefer.com - Ali Pasha (Turkish And Ottoman History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
His father, governor at Tepelene in S Albania, was murdered, and Ali went to live with the mountain brigands who infested the country.
Ali refused to comply, thus keeping Turkish troops engaged against himself while they were needed against the Greeks, who had begun their fight for independence.
Ali was assassinated by an agent of the Turks; his head was exhibited at Constantinople.
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 The Dynasty of Mohammed Ali Pasha
Although Mohammed Ali was nominally a representative of the Ottoman Sultan he was for all intents and purposes an absolute ruler.
Mohammed Ali was also an ambitious expansionist whose armies extended his power over Syria, Sudan, Greece and the Arabian Peninsula until by 1839 he controlled a large portion of the Ottoman Empire.
Said Pasha, the son and successor of Abbas, reversed his father's policies and actively set about developing the country's infrastructure and initiated the building of the Suez Canal, which was completed in 1869 by his successor the Khedive Ismail.
www.goegypt.org /aboutegy/history/18-thedynastyofmohammedalipasha.htm   (412 words)

  
 Mohammad Ali Pasha
Mohammad Ali was born in 1769 in Kavala, a small Macedonian seaport on the coast of the Aegean Sea in what is known now by Greece.
Mohammad Ali exterminated the Mamluks, the former ruling oligarchy, in the famous Citadel massacre of 1811.
According to this agreement Mohammad Ali and his family were granted the hereditary right to rule Egypt and Sudan with the rule of succession to the eldest male in the family given that Egypt remains a part of the Ottoman Empire and that it pays an annual tribute (jizya) to the Ottoman Sultan.
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 Ali Pasha (1740-1822)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Ali Pasha was a leader of brigands in his youth.
Ali Pasha had a harem of over 600 women in Janina and was very wealthy.
Ali Pasha went too far and his enemies, some of them robbed of their territories, appealed to the Sultan to remove him from power.
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 Muhammad 'ali Pasha --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
When Muhammad 'Ali (also spelled Mehemet Ali) was named pasha of Egypt by the Ottoman Empire, he founded a dynasty that ruled for more than 100 years and paved the way for the modern Egyptian state.
Muhammad 'Ali was born in 1769 in the Ottoman province of Kaválla, Macedonia.
viceroy and pasha of Egypt (1805–49), founder of the dynasty that ruled Egypt from the beginning of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9275971   (688 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | Special | Muhammad Ali's ideological project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Abbas Pasha returned to the old way of life, remaining inside his distant castles and fortresses among his horses and dogs until his bloody end at the hands of his Mamlukes in a manner reminiscent of the age of the Mamluke Beys.
In Muhammad Ali's vision of renaissance the leader himself was the central creative force, awakening the nation from its slumber and leading it along the path of progress.
PUBLIC INTEREST: was often mentioned in Muhammad Ali's speeches, letters, decrees and laws, sometimes interchanging it with the term "charitable interest." The concept of public interest refers to the goals of the renaissance enterprise which individuals had to meet at the expense of their or others' personal interests.
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Ali’s private physician ordered small doses of mercury to be administered to the Pasha to control the bouts; historian Mohammed Hakim argues that the treatment was severe and the physician had ordered that the patient abstain from sexual activity.
Mohammed Ali was deposed in September 1848, and with that his dreams of grandeur for the country came to a crashing end.
Of Mohammed Ali, she was told that he was Albanian and that she should be proud of his achievements because he had introduced modernity to Egypt.
www.egypttoday.com /article.aspx?ArticleID=5911   (4091 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | Special | An officer and an Ottoman gentleman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Muhammad Ali (1805-2005) is a special series published fortnightly by Al-Ahram Weekly in anticipation of the international symposium commemorating the bicentennial of Muhammad Ali Pasha's acendancy to power, to be held in Egypt on 10 November.
For Palmerston's intense animosity to the Pasha was not due to any anxiety about the feeble industrialisation attempts but rather it was his monopolies policy that alarmed Britain as it allowed him to siphon off profits from the agricultural and commercial sectors to the military.
If Mehmed Ali's prime goal was to achieve dynastic rule for himself in Egypt, then Abbas can be seen as loyally protecting his grandfather's legacy, firmly resisting the Porte's attempts to extend its prerogatives of executing convicted criminals who had committed their crimes in Egypt.
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 HizmetBooks
When Radif Pasha fell ill, Ghazi Ahmad Mukhtar Pasha was appointed to civilize the savages in the deserts of Yaman and in the Asir Mountains and to establish and disseminate Islamic knowledge and morals in that district.
Sharif Husain Pasha (rahmat-Allahi 'alaih) saw that the Unionists, exploiting the faith of Muslims and talking about jihad against non-Muslims, were leading the great empire to partition, that they were throwing thousands of Muslim youth into the fire, that their unawareness and dissipation were not compatible with their words in the least.
Faruqi Sami Pasha was appointed the mutasarrif (governor of a subdivision of a province) of the Qasim town to end the bloody battles which had been taking place between the tribe of 'Abd al-'Aziz and that of Ibn ar-Rashid in the Najd deserts.
www.hizmetbooks.org /Advice_for_the_Muslim/wah-41.htm   (7946 words)

  
 Fleming, K.E.: The Muslim Bonaparte: Diplomacy and Orientalism in Ali Pasha's Greece.
Ali Pasha of Ioannina (?1750-1822), the Ottoman-appointed governor of the northern mainland of Greece, was a towering figure in Ottoman, Greek, and European history.
Dubbed by Byron the "Muslim Bonaparte," Ali enjoyed a position of diplomatic strength in the eastern Adriatic; in his attempt to secede from the Ottoman state, he cleverly took advantage of the diplomatic relations of Britain, Russia, France, and Venice.
It was also a process by which Ali Pasha was able to limit that domination, and, for a time, even turn it around.
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 Middle East Information
Abbas I (of Egypt) (1813-1854), pasha of Egypt
Pasha, born in Cairo, and educated in Paris.
Tawfik Pasha in 1879 and subsequently lived in exile abroad.
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 Ali Pasha Scenario   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Ottoman governor is the legendary and semi-autonomous Ali Pasha of Jannina (known as Arslan - The Lion).
You are Ali Pasha the Ottoman governor and semi-autonomous Ali Pasha of Jannina (known as Arslan - The Lion).
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 Muhammad Ali
Ali's flamboyant boxing style and outspoken stances on social issues made him a controversial figure during the turbulent 1960s and early 1970s.
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 Muhamet Ali Pasha
Ali was born in 1769, in the Ottoman province of Albania.
Using the exceptional skills of the mostly Albanian army that he had created, he succeeded in gaining Egypt in 1801, and being named Pasha of Egypt in 1805.
Muhamet Ali showed his exceptional Albanian army in aiding the sultan to suppress numerous rebellions.
historyofalbania.00server.com /famousalbanians-muhametali.html   (282 words)

  
 Ali Pasha on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
ALI PASHA [Ali Pasha], 1744?-1822, Turkish pasha [military governor] of Yannina (now Ioánnina, Greece), a province of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey).
When Pasha's Courtcame to Earls Court; With a love for theatrical expression, this ex-model and clairvoyant has created a bizarre home.
Mizra Fath Ali Akhundzade and the call for modernization of the Islamic world.
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 Baha'u'llah's Tablet of Fuad
Fuad Pasha was the son of a famed poet, and he himself studied medicine.
Born in Istanbul in 1815, he was among the foremost planners and implementers of the Tanzimat or reorganization of the Ottoman administration in the nineteenth century so as to bring it closer to modern Western standards.
Fuad Pasha, used to commanding men and armies by virtue of his sealed edicts, is depicted as now attempting to issue such an Ottoman-style decree to the angels besetting him, but they simply silence him.
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 Ali Pasha (1744 - 1822)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In 1787 he was appointed as a pasha (governor) to Trikala, but he seized power in Ioannina by attempting a coup.
The ambitious plans of Ali Pasha to become independent became known to the Sublime Port, and Sultan Mahmoud II declared Ali guilty of betrayal.
The successor of Ismael, Hoursit Pasha, tricked Ali and persuaded him to capitulate and retreat to the Island of Ioannina (January 1822), where he was killed during a fight with representatives of the Sultan.
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 Ali Pasha
The wild yet cultured court of Ali was described by French and English visitors, notably by Byron in
Muhammad Ali, pasha of Egypt - Muhammad Ali, 1769?–1849, pasha of Egypt after 1805.
Modern Egypt: Rulers - Baybars I, Mamluk sultan (1260–77) of Egypt and Syria Muhammad Ali, pasha of Egypt after 1805...
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 Muhammed Ali Pasha   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In 1838 Muhammad Ali Pasha, who was the the ruler of Egypt in 1838, would be a candidate for the name "Mohammed the Black".
In the book The Blue Nile (1962), Alan Moorehead indicates that Muhammad Ali was a Turk born in 1769 who was a volunteer in the Turkish army which landed at Abukir in 1799.
The old tyrant, now the ruler of an empire which his son Ibrahim had pushed to the Euphrates, was full of projects: he wanted to clear the Nile cataracts, build a railway and a telegraph to Khartoum and establish cotton and indigo growing in the land between the two Niles.
www.victorianweb.org /history/letters/muham.html   (438 words)

  
 History - Albanian Historical Figures - Mehmet Ali Pasha   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Mehmet Ali was far ahead of his countrymen, while his moral character, enlightened mind and distinguished ability qualified him for the title Founder of Modern Egypt.
An equally enlightened grandson, Ismail Pasha, improved the adminstration, the courts, the post office system and public works, notably the railways, telegraph nework, ligjhthouses, breakwaters and harbors.
All in all, the Mehmet Ali dynasty inroduced a new era to Egypt lasting from 1805 to 1952.
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 ALI - Online Information article about ALI
Ali was now confirmed in the possession of all his father's territory and was also appointed See also:
execution was entrusted to Khurshid Pasha, with the bulk of the Ottoman forces.
sketch, Ali Pasha is undoubtedly one of the most remarkable, as he is one of the most picturesque, figures in See also:
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 Amazon.com: The Muslim Bonaparte: Books: K. E. Fleming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
As Fleming sees it, the greatest obstacle to real understanding of Ali Pasha is the orientalizing tendency of the the primary sources, mostly British and French travel writings that tried to provide Europeans with a glimpse of what a Turkish despot was like.
I was aware of Ali's image in modern Greek history and once I watched a film about kyra-Frosyni (Irene Papas main role) and I was surprised to see that it was just two adulterers (his son Muhtar and her, both married) story which ended with her drowning.
She keeps on saying Ali Pasha was pressing his subjects so hard for money that would lead them to ruin, yet she states that the economic situation due to peace and low amount of thieves made the local economy blossom.
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 CMK:The Banat Nura of Ali Pasha Sherif
Zeyd...went to Ali Pasha Sherif to inquire, as we supposed, privately, whether his Excellency would be disposed to sell one or both of the bay daughters of Nura (Doheymeh Nejib).
In December of 1888 the Blunts were again in Egypt, and saw the Ali Pasha Sherif horses for the first time in about seven years.
daughter bred by Ali Pasha Sherif, was purchased December 10, 1897 from Ayub Bey.
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