All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, his Army and the Making of Modern Egypt

by Khaled Fahmy

• ISBN13: 9780521560078
• ISBN10: 0521560071
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-01-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

While previous scholarship has viewed Mehmed Ali Pasha as the founder of modern Egypt, Khaled Fahmy offers a new interpretation of his role in the rise of Egyptian nationalism, locating him in the Ottoman context as an ambitious Ottoman reformer. Basing his work on previously neglected archival material, the author demonstrates how Mehmed Ali sought to develop the Egyptian economy and to build up the army, not as a means of gaining Egyptian independence from the Ottoman Empire, but to further his own ambitions for hereditary rule over the province. In its analysis of nation-building and the construction of state power, the book makes a significant contribution to the larger theoretical debates. It will therefore be essential reading for students in the field, as well as for Ottomanists, military historians and those interested in the development of the modern nation-state.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	x	(1)
Preface	xi	(4)
Acknowledgements	xv	(2)
Note on transliteration, dates and references	xvii
Introduction	1	(37)
1 Between Sultan and vali: Syria and the nature of Mehmed Ali's military expansion	38	(38)
2 The birth of an army: conscription and resistance	76	(36)
3 From peasants to soldiers: discipline and training	112	(48)
4 Beyond the facade of order: the performance of the army	160	(39)
5 Behind the lines: daily life in the camps	199	(40)
6 Mehmed Ali's army and the Egyptian nation	239	(39)
7 The Egyptian Vali, the Ottoman Pashas and the British Lord	278	(28)
Conclusion	306	(13)
Bibliography	319	(11)
Index	330