Muhammad Ali of Egypt

Muhammad Ali Pasha al-Mas'ud ibn Agha (Arabic: Muḥammad ʿAlī Bāšā) (Mehmet Ali Pasha in Albanian; Kavalalı Mehmet Ali Paşa in Turkish) (4 March 1769 – 2 August 1849) is an Albanian commander in the Ottoman army, who becomes Wāli, and self-declared Khedive of Egypt and Sudan.

Though not a modern nationalist, he is regarded as the founder of modern Egypt because of the dramatic reforms in the military, economic and cultural spheres that he institutes.

He also rules Levantine territories outside Egypt.

The dynasty that he establishes will rule Egypt and Sudan until the Egyptian Revolution of 1952.

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