Ahmed Urabi

Ahmed ʻUrabi Pasha
أحمد عرابي
ʻUrabi in 1906
Prime Minister of Egypt
In office
1 July 1882 – 13 September 1882
MonarchTewfik Pasha
Preceded byRaghib Pasha
Succeeded byMohamed Sherif Pasha
Personal details
Born(1841-03-31)March 31, 1841
Zagazig, Ottoman Egypt
DiedSeptember 21, 1911(1911-09-21) (aged 70)
Cairo, Khedivate of Egypt
Military service
Allegiance Egypt
RankBrigadier general
Battles/warsEgyptian–Ethiopian War
ʻUrabi revolt
Anglo-Egyptian War

Ahmed Urabi ([ˈæħmæd ʕoˈɾɑːbi]; Arabic: أحمد عرابي; 31 March 1841 – 21 September 1911), also known as Ahmed Ourabi or Orabi Pasha,[1][2] was an Egyptian military officer.[3][4] He was the first political and military leader in Egypt to rise from the fellahin (peasantry). Urabi participated in an 1879 mutiny that developed into the ʻUrabi revolt against the administration of Khedive Tewfik, which was under the influence of an Anglo-French consortium.[5] He was promoted to Tewfik's cabinet and began reforms of Egypt's military and civil administrations, but the demonstrations in Alexandria of 1882 prompted a British bombardment and invasion which led to the capture of ʻUrabi and his allies and the imposition of British control in Egypt. ʻUrabi and his allies were sentenced by Tewfik into exile far away in British Ceylon, as a form of punishment.[6]

  1. ^ Royle, Charles (1900). The Egyptian Campaigns (1882–1885). London: Hurst and Blackett, Ltd. pp. 601). Retrieved June 27, 2021.
  2. ^ Portrait of "'Uraby Pasha" by Luigi Fiorillo, from album showing Alexandria after the British naval bombardment of the city (1882). American University in Cairo website, accessed 27 June 2021.
  3. ^ "ʿUrābī Pasha". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
  4. ^ Wallace, Donald M.; Cana, Frank R. (1911). "Egypt § History" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 114. Among the mutinous soldiers on that occasion was a fellah officer calling himself Ahmed Ourabi the Egyptian.}
  5. ^ Bowen, John Eliot (1886). "The Conflict of East and West in Egypt. II". Political Science Quarterly. 1 (3): 449–490. doi:10.2307/2139362. ISSN 0032-3195. JSTOR 2139362.
  6. ^ Buzpinar, S. Tufan. "The Repercussions of the British Occupation of Egypt on Syria, 1882–83". Middle Eastern Studies. 36.

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