Some Egyptian historiography is built from the Pasha’s own documents.

Evidence

22 Amīn Sāmī’s Taqwīm al-Nīl is the perfect example of this style of writing about the Great Pasha: a Chronicle of the Nile based on Mehmed Ali’s letters. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 983

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names Amīn Sāmī’s work as the exemplar of prosopographical, document-based writing on Mehmed Ali.
• XREF: connects to: The Pasha’s archive was curated to shape how later historians wrote about him. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1685; Historians inherited Mehmed Ali’s self-selected archival framing of Egyptian history. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1685; Archival sources were selected early on to make histories mirror Mehmed Ali’s own account (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Pasha’s archive was curated to shape how later historians wrote about him. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1685; Historians inherited Mehmed Ali’s self-selected archival framing of Egyptian history. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1685; Archival sources were selected early on to make histories mirror Mehmed Ali’s own account (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The Pasha’s archive was curated to shape how later historians wrote about him. #expands (0.92) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1685