A canal re-dug by Mamluk ruler Qaitbay predated Mehmed Ali’s canal works.
Evidence
It was initially called the Ashrafiyya, after al-Sultan al-Ashraf Qaitbay, the Mamluk ruler of Egypt who re-dug it after centuries of neglect; S/1/47/1/81 on 29 Za 1233/30 September 1813. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 404
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Category: Factual Claims
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- The Pasha named his Alexandria canal after Sultan Mahmud II (similarity 0.78)