Biographies by Marsot read as uncritical endorsements of Muhammad Ali.
Evidence
Marsot’s book, for example, starts with a chapter entitled “Egypt under the mamluks,” which is followed by another with the title “Muhammad Ali the man,” then “A country without a master,” “Master in his own house,” and culminates in a chapter whose heading is “Expansion to what end?” The book ends with two chapters, “The undoing: Muhammad Ali and Palmerston” and “The aftermath”: if Mehmed Ali’s proposed autobiography had been written, and had it survived, it would hardly have offered a more uncritical account. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1705
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Situates Marsot’s biography within the historiography of Muhammad Ali that the reader is navigating.