A common pattern shapes histories of Mehmed Ali’s expansionism.

Evidence

Douin, ed., Une mission militaire française auprès de Mohamed Aly (Cairo: Royal Egyptian Geographical Society, 1923), pp. 79–80. … This is true not only for a straightforward military history as that of Maxime Weygand, Histoire militaire de Mohammed Aly et de ses fils, 2 vols. (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1936), but also for such accounts as that of Dodwell and, more recently, Fred Lawson, The Social Origins of Egyptian Expansionism During the Muhammad ‘Ali Period (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992). For examples of Egyptian historians who follow the same pattern see al-Rāf’ī, ‘Aṣr Muḥammad ‘Alī, Sabry, L’Empire égyptien, and al-Sayyid Marsot, Egypt. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 268

This is true not only for a straightforward military history as that of Maxime Weygand, Histoire militaire de Mohammed Aly et de ses fils, 2 vols. (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1936), but also for such accounts as that of Dodwell and, more recently, Fred Lawson, The Social Origins of Egyptian Expansionism During the Muhammad ‘Ali Period (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992). — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 268

Categorization

Category: Craft and Method