Muhammad Ali Pasha

This article is about the viceroy of Egypt. For other people named Muhammad Ali or Mehmet Ali, see Muhammad Ali (disambiguation) and Mehemet Ali (disambiguation). Muhammad 'Alī Pasha al-Mas'ud ibn Agha (Arabic: محمد علي باشا) (Albanian: Mehmet Ali Pasha) or Mehmet Ali Paşa in Turkish, (c. 1769 - August 2, 1849), was Wali of Egypt and Sudan, and is regarded as the "founder of modern Egypt". The dynasty he established would rule Egypt and Sudan until the Egyptian Revolution of 1952.
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