Ottoman orders to fight the Wahhabis went unheeded for years.

Evidence

In 1804 the Pashas of Syria and Baghdad were ordered by the Sultan to undertake a campaign against the Wahhabis. Such a campaign never took place: J. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 268

Categorization

• XREF: The Sultan’s inability to compel the regional pashas foreshadows the later Ottoman weakness the reader is tracking toward the Egyptian army’s rise.