Mehmed Ali’s army secured dynastic rule over Egypt for a century

Evidence

My main subject is the army that Mehmed Ali managed to found in Egypt in the first half of the nineteenth century, an institution that represented the modern notions of power in as pristine a form as could possibly be found. It argues that it is true that the Pasha and his authorities managed to capture the bodies of tens of thousands of Egyptian men and that it is correct that they succeeded in training them and in aggregating their efforts to form a modern, disciplined army. As a result, the Pasha was capable in his old age of achieving what he had always aspired to, namely, to secure for himself and for his children after his death rule over the rich lands of Egypt, and for the hundred years after his death Egypt was, indeed, ruled by his descendants. Yet the soldiers, by resisting him and his authorities and by undermining his impressive, powerful structure, proved that they were not part of this project, that they were implicated in it against their will, and that they attempted to resist it by all means possible and imaginable. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1702

Categorization

• QUESTION: What proportion of this durability traces to the army versus other stability factors after Mehmed Ali’s death?