Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1 MACEDONIAN ORIGINS

Birth

Childhood and adolescence

Marriage

2 THE EGYPTIAN QUAGMIRE

Hüsrev Pasha: the beginning of a lifelong enmity

The eviction of the Mamluks from Cairo

Sending Hüsrev packing

3 CONSOLIDATION OF POWER

The elimination of local rivals

The Mamluk massacre

4 ENTRENCHMENT

Building an alternative power base

An economic policy takes shape

The Hijaz campaign

Absolute power

Tightening the screw

Investing in infrastructure

Lingering anxieties

Commercial successes

“The old spider in his den”

5 EXPANDING HORIZONS

A fortuitous year

The Greek war

The involvement of the European powers

Hüsrev’s reappearance

The “Auspicious Event”

Disaster at Navarino

Preparation for the next round

6 THE FINAL SHOWDOWN

The Benefactor

Nagging worries

The invasion of Syria

Crossing the Rubicon

Reorganization and retrenchment

The second Syrian crisis

Seeking hereditary rule

Jubilation

7 TRIUMPH

The Pasha and his elite: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Mehmed Ali and the Egyptians

The Pasha’s last years

8 THE PASHA’S MULTIPLE LEGACIES

What went wrong?

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Khaled Fahmy is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at New York University. He is the author of All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army and the Making of Modern Egypt.