Two of Mehmed Ali’s campaigns were reluctant responses to Sultanic orders
Evidence
But to argue that these considerations were decisive in shaping Mehmed Ali’s policy of expansion is to ignore the fact that two of these campaigns were ordered by his Sultan, and that Mehmed Ali agreed to comply with these orders only reluctantly and after considerable hesitation. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 182
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- The Sultan ordered two Egyptian campaigns which Mehmed Ali joined reluctantly (similarity 0.87)
- Mehmed Ali used the Wahhabi campaign as a way to dispose of troublesome troops. (similarity 0.79)
- Mehmed Ali’s war against the Sultan undermined his reforming rationale. (similarity 0.79)
- Mehmed Ali initially expected to fight Persia for the Sultan, not the Morea. (similarity 0.79)
- Mehmed Ali’s expansion policy cost him essential British support (similarity 0.78)
- Britain opposed Mehmed Ali because his expansion threatened British India and Istanbul influence (similarity 0.78)
- Mehmed Ali’s Sudan invasion combined multiple strategic motives beyond conquest (similarity 0.78)