A new bureaucratic regime collected and classified information about Egyptian subjects

Evidence

Paradoxically, it was also one that was, at the same time, more diffuse and impersonal. What the scribe’s register and the tezkere represented was a new concept of administrative authority which was introduced in Egypt and which was based not only on the systematic collection, integration and classification of information about the population but also on the need to monitor and supervise its activities. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 650