Muhammad Ali of Egypt

Muhammad Ali of Egypt is represented in the linked historical fiction and non-fiction through empire, conquest and resistance, political ambition and government, and military command and battlefield decision-making. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.

In Jason Goodwin’s An Evil Eye, Mahmud II is dead, a young sultan is installing a new household and the Ottoman fleet has been taken to Egypt by its commander, Fevzi Ahmet Pasha.

In non-fiction, Muhammad Ali of Egypt is discussed in Ian Rutledge’s Sea of Troubles. In Ian Rutledge’s Sea of Troubles, Ian Rutledge begins with the economic and political structures of the Ottoman Mediterranean, Morocco and the Barbary regencies before following Russian expansion, Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt, the French conquest of Algeria and the struggles of Mahmud II and Muhammad Ali.