Helen Anne B. Rivlin
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Emerita Professor of History, State University of New York at Binghamton. Author of The Agricultural Policy of Mu&hsubdot;ammad &hamzah;Alī in Egypt and others.
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Muḥammad ʿAlī was the pasha and viceroy of Egypt (1805–48), founder of the dynasty that ruled Egypt from the beginning of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th. He encouraged the emergence of the modern Egyptian state. Muḥammad ʿAlī’s ethnic background is unknown, though he may have been an…
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