Culture Arena
English
- English
- فارسی
Egypt · Famous People · Normal
Which Ottoman Albanian officer, sent to Egypt in 1801, seized power and founded the dynasty that ruled until the 1952 revolution?
Answer: Muhammad Ali Pasha — Muhammad Ali Pasha, an Albanian commander in the Ottoman army, consolidated power by eliminating the Mamluk beys at the 1811 Citadel massacre and established a hereditary dynasty that transformed Egypt into a modern centralized state, though technically still an Ottoman province.
- A Ibrahim Pasha
- B Khedive Ismail
- C Muhammad Ali Pasha ✓
- D Tewfik Pasha
Muhammad Ali Pasha, an Albanian commander in the Ottoman army, consolidated power by eliminating the Mamluk beys at the 1811 Citadel massacre and established a hereditary dynasty that transformed Egypt into a modern centralized state, though technically still an Ottoman province.