Ali founded his conscript army in 1820-1 to secure his rule against Istanbul

Evidence

This narration will not start at the beginning, as he would have liked, with his childhood in Albania or with his arrival in Egypt, or at the end, as some nationalist historians would have preferred, highlighting his showdown with Great Britain, but in the middle of his long career as governor of Egypt, and precisely in the year AH 1236/AD 1820–1. This is the year that Mehmed Ali started to found a modern army in Egypt, an army which was based on conscription and which relied on the institutions of the modern state that he founded mainly to serve that army. It is this army, rather than Mehmed Ali’s character or his person, that is the subject of this book, and it is this central institution that is studied below in order to analyze the nature of Egyptian society in the first half of the nineteenth century. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 70 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The modern army built in 1820-1 enabled Ali’s expansion.; Mehmed Ali founded a conscription-based army in Egypt in 1820 — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 70; Mehmed Ali created a provincial power center rivaling Istanbul itself

Related

• Mehmed Ali founded a conscription-based army in Egypt in 1820 (similarity 0.94)
• Egypt’s modern army was founded through conscription in 1820–21 (similarity 0.92)
• Mehmed Ali conscripted even self-maimed men into his army and projects (similarity 0.91)
• The modern army built in 1820-1 enabled Ali’s expansion. (similarity 0.91)
• Mehmed Ali’s army founded Egyptian nationalism through control practices, not enlightenment. (similarity 0.89)
• Within roughly a decade Egypt replaced Mamluk-style warriors with a trained modern army (similarity 0.89)
• Syria’s two million people attracted Mehmed Ali’s conscription plans (similarity 0.87)
• The army conscripted Egyptians by force to fight for Mehmed Ali’s dynasty (similarity 0.87)
• Fear of removal drove Mehmed Ali to build a conscript army in 1820-21. (similarity 0.86)
• Mehmed Ali’s conscript army drove the creation of the modern Egyptian state (similarity 0.85)
• The Egyptian army coerced conscripts for the Pasha’s dynastic wars (similarity 0.85)
• Mehmed Ali created a provincial power center rivaling Istanbul itself (similarity 0.84)
• Mehmed Ali’s army was an institution of coercive power that transformed Egyptian society (similarity 0.84)
• Mehmed Ali’s 130,000-man army forced unprecedented state centralization in Egypt (similarity 0.84)
• Mehmed Ali’s army secured dynastic rule over Egypt for a century (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Mehmed Ali founded a conscription-based army in Egypt in 1820 #corroborates (0.80) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 70
• The modern army built in 1820-1 enabled Ali’s expansion. #expands (0.70)
• Mehmed Ali created a provincial power center rivaling Istanbul itself #expands (0.55)