Historical information about Mohamed Ali Basha



Historical information about Mohamed Ali Basha

Mohamed Ali Basha was chosen by the Egyptian people to rule them in 1805. Mohamed Ali Basha is the founder of Modern Egypt, this Albanian who couldn't read or write made a great nation that invaded the Middle East and became a threat to the world powers then England and France, this Albanian did in 30 years what the Egyptians rulers in 50 years failed in. (Wissa 2008: 20-55)

Mohamed Ali Basha was chosen by the Egyptian people themselves in incredible incident that shows despite at that time Egyptians didn't have the enough political culture or enough education yet they made the right decision. The Basha was a great man despite that he made what now can be looked at as crimes as the Massacre of Mamlukes at the Citadel but come on if he didn't do such violent act ,he wouldn't have security nor stability in the country , a security and stability that paved for him the way to the country he wanted. (Wissa 2008: 20-55)

Mohamed Ali Basha proved to have a long view in politics that fascinates me till now. He refused the project of Suez Canal, saying that it will bring problems to Egypt and it did since its digging. It is also said that this historical fact happened in his era or Ishmael Basha era, that some European rich Jews wanted to rent Sinai and he refused whether it was him or it was his grand son Khedive Ismail or Ishmael by Hebrew. He had got (3) three children from his wife. (Smith 2008: 46-59)

This is not an exceptional attitude in Arab and Islamic countries, particularly in rural areas. It is the result of hundreds or thousands of years of practicing traditions, values and habits imposed by the Arab and Arab Islamic societies' development and the impact of adjacent societies' habits and traditions on them. It is, also, the result of the male society's and the ruling classes' injustice for long ages, where women were always looked at as merchandises that could be sold and purchased, and as property and slaves of their husbands, as Hojat el-Islam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali thought in the 11th Gregorian century (Abdel 2008: 15-20).

The reality of Arab Muslim women today is the result of values that have been accumulating and enhancing themselves since pre-Islam until now, and the collaboration of the ruling classes' interests, men, philosophers, theologists and intellectuals, who stereotyped women in marginal roles in society, considering them as objects for men to satisfy their sexual desires and tendency to dominate, exploit and suppress women. (Freedman 2007: 35-59)

The eve of the 19th century witnessed many important events which shook the region, upset its tranquility and spurred its stagnation generating a shock in its development process and planting the first seeds of the future overwhelming change. Among those event was the French campaign in Egypt in the late 1700s; monopolization of power by Mohamed Ali Basha in Egypt; and the European ...