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Muhammad Ali Pasha

محەممەد عەلی پاشا

Born 1769 · Died 1849

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The text of the article came as follows: Amed... not his saying... Abbas Mahmoud Al-Akkad says: “... His Highness said in the secretariat of the investigative scholar: I do not know and I do not allow myself to suspect what I do not know, but I am telling you something that may surprise you.” Many people have talked about the emergence of the Alawite family attributed to Muhammad Ali. The common belief is that it arose close to Qula in the country of Arna'ut (Albania), but what I saw in a book written by an Egyptian judge during the reign of Muhammad Ali is that the origin of the family is from Amed in the country of the Kurds, and from there his father moved. Muhammad Ali and his brothers to Qula, then one of his uncles moved to Istanbul, and his second uncle left to seek trade, and Muhammad Ali’s father remained in Qula, and this story was reinforced by what we heard transmitted from Prince Halim, one of his descendants

Muhammad Ali said that he used to trace the family’s origins back to Amed in the country of the Kurds.” Al-Aqqad comments on this previous statement by saying: “It is an honor for the Kurdish country to have produced for the Islamic world two immortal heroes, Saladin and Muhammad Ali the Great, and they met in their early days, in the renaissance in Egypt, and in The Yusufiyah Citadel is attributed to them (today’s Cairo Citadel, by construction it is attributed to Saladin, and by renovation and strengthening it is attributed to Muhammad Ali the Great), and we know that the people are faithful to their lineages and origins, and that many of the military commanders who served with Muhammad Ali Pasha and his descendants were mostly Kurds. Examples of Ismail Pasha Al-Kashif Taimur, the grandfather of the Timurid family in Egypt, which gave birth to the poet Aisha Al-Taymuriyah. He was found and the following is about the life of Muhammad Ali Pasha and some of the famous people from his family during the rule of Egypt.

Posted by Median Library contributor · 4 September 2024

Little is known about the family or its origins. While historians described them as being of Albanian origin, it is common in the family that they may be of Kurdish lineage, and they came from one of the villages, the village of “Ilic”, in eastern Anatolia, where they worked in the horse trade (1).

Posted by Median Library contributor · 4 September 2024

(Muhammad Ali) Pasha, the founder of the Alawite dynasty that ruled Egypt for nearly 150 years, was born in Albania in 1769 AD to a Turkish tobacco merchant who was said to be a Kurd. He joined the army and was deputy head of the Albanian battalion that marched on Egypt to wrest it from the hands of the Persians.

Posted by Median Library contributor · 4 September 2024

Kurdish origin, contrary to what some people think, that they are Albanians, Turks, or from the land of the Albanians. Here is an excerpt from what Muhammad Ali Al-Saghir said in his press interview about his Kurdish origin.