Husrev Pasha, not the Sultan or Britain, was Mehmed Ali’s chief adversary

Evidence

If one sees Mehmed Ali as a governor of an Ottoman province who was constantly concerned about his position within the Empire and was anxious about the future of his family after his death, as he himself certainly was, then the person who appears as the Pasha’s nemesis whom he spent all his life fighting was not Sultan Mahmud, not even Lord Palmerston, the British Foreign Secretary (to whom we will turn shortly), but Mehmed Husrev Pasha, his old enemy whom he first encountered in 1801 and who since then had been appointed as governor of various provinces in Anatolia and Rumelia, as Grand Admiral of the Ottoman navy, who eventually became Grand Vizier more than once in his long career of public service. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1553

Categorization

• XREF: Fits the reader’s interest in the Ottoman Pashas as actors; connects to prior reading about patronage politics and rival factions.