Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Ottoman Albanian commander (born 1769)

Muhammad Ali of Egypt

Ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848

Muhammad Ali was the Ottoman Albanian viceroy and governor who became the de facto ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, widely considered the founder of modern Egypt. At the height of his rule in 1840, he controlled Egypt, Sudan, Hejaz, the Levant, Crete and parts of Greece and…