Albanian origin may have earned officers leniency from Mehmed Ali

Evidence

The officer’s full name was Yakup Arnavut which suggests that this exception might have been due to the fact that the man in question was, like the Pasha himself, of Albanian origin. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 922

Categorization

• XREF: Albanian ethnic solidarity echoes the Ottoman-Albanian networks theme also relevant to Mehmed Ali’s own rise; ties to Home Boy’s diaspora ethnic-network dynamics.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing whether Albanian patronage networks in Egypt predated and structured Mehmed Ali’s officer corps.