The Egyptian National Archives hold the richest sources on Mehmed Ali’s army.

Evidence

While some of the British Foreign Office documents housed in the Public Record Office, London, were of some value in understanding how the army functioned, these offer mostly an outsider’s view of the events and personalities touched upon in this study and, therefore, they have been used only minimally. Similarly some accounts by contemporary travelers and military observers are used, but again only to give further descriptions to material gathered elsewhere. More substantially, this book relies on material collected from the Egyptian National Archives and, to a lesser extent, from the Egyptian National Library, both in Cairo. Broadly speaking, these are of three different kinds. On the one level, there are the numerous letters and regulations issued by the Pasha and his top officials. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 20

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to the reader’s interest in researching Ottoman and Egyptian military history directly from archival sources.
• QUESTION: Worth checking what exactly the yevmiyyet (daily journals) contain beyond roll calls and pay rolls, since these underused documents are the heart of the book.