The Syrian Peasant Revolt is an armed uprising of Arab peasant classes against the rule of Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt in 1834–35.
The revolt takes place in areas of Ottoman Syria, at the time ruled by semi-independent ruler of Egypt, who had conquered the region from loyal Ottoman forces in 1831.
The main arena of the revolt evolves in the Damascus Eyalet—Jerusalem, Nablus and Hebron (Palestine or Southern Syria), as well as a major tribal Bedouin rebellion in Al-Karak (Transjordan); other peasant revolts also erupt in Sidon Eyalet—led by Arab Muslims and Druze and encompassing Mount Lebanon, Hauran and Galilee; and a revolt in Aleppo Eyalet—led by Alawites of the Syrian coast.
The cause of the revolts is mainly the refusal of Syrian peasants to answer conscription and disarmanent orders of new Egyptian rulers of the Muhammad Ali dynasty, in line with anti-Egyptian attitudes of local Ottoman loyalists.
