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  Palestine - Crystalinks
Between 1831 and 1840, Muhammad Ali, the modernizing viceroy of Egypt, expanded his rule to Palestine.
Aided by the Arabs, the British captured Palestine from the Ottoman Turks in 1917 and 1918.
Thus, in the secret Sykes-Picot agreement with France and Russia (1916), it promised to divide and rule the region with its allies.
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 Islam
Another more recent group are the Wahhabis, though some classify them as the ultra-conservative branch of the Hanbali school of Sunni Islam.
Wahhabism is a movement founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab in the 18th century in what is present-day Saudi Arabia.
One thing which distinguishes Wahhabi teachings from Sunni teachings is that Wahhabis consider several things prohibited which the four schools of Sunni Islam consider permitted.
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 encarta
Muhammad Ali, who ruled the country as viceroy from 1805 to 1849, revolutionized Egypt's economy, introducing such crops as sugar and cotton, installing mills and factories, building roads and canals, and importing Western technicians and teachers.
At that time the search by European powers for raw materials and markets, as well as their strategic interests, brought them to the Middle East, stimulating economic and social development.
The Arabs revolted against the Turks because the British had promised them, in correspondence (1915-1916) with Husein ibn Ali of Mecca, the independence of their countries after the war.
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Muawiya of the powerful Umayyad House of Mecca became governor of Syria in 639, and he made it his base in the struggle against Ali ibn Abi Talib, which ended in his elevation as caliph in 661.
In 1831 Muhammad Ali, Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt, dispatched an army led by his son which conquered and held Syria for almost a decade.
Anxious to prop up the weakening Ottomans, Britain and Austria sent forces which in 1840 compelled the Egyptians to withdraw.
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