Mehmed Ali’s archive was selected and edited by his great-grandson to flatter the family

Evidence

It should be noted that most of these translations were done at the explicit order of King Fouad (r. 1923–36), Mehmed Ali’s great-grandson. Having recently won the title of King, Fouad was keen not only in portraying the history of his family in a positive light, but also in highlighting the fact that his was an independent royal family right from his great-grandfather’s time. He thus invited a number of historians to come and work on a highly selected group of his family’s papers, which became the nucleus of the Royal Archives of Egypt that was housed in ‘Abdīn Palace, the precursor of the present Egyptian National Archives. Not only was this a selected group of documents, they were also slightly edited on being translated from the original Ottoman Turkish to Arabic. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 171

Categorization

• QUESTION: Which specific documents were suppressed or edited, and what might they have shown about Mehmed Ali’s actual Ottoman loyalties?
• XREF: connects to: King Fouad selectively edited family archives to polish Mehmed Ali’s legacy; Archival sources were selected early on to make histories mirror Mehmed Ali’s own account; Historians inherited Mehmed Ali’s self-selected archival framing of Egyptian history. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1685 (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: King Fouad selectively edited family archives to polish Mehmed Ali’s legacy; Archival sources were selected early on to make histories mirror Mehmed Ali’s own account; Historians inherited Mehmed Ali’s self-selected archival framing of Egyptian history. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1685 (+5 more)