Ruler
Ibrahim Pasha
Commander of Muhammad Ali’s armies
1789 – 1848
Lifespan; he ruled for a few months in 1848.
Biography
Muhammad Ali’s eldest son, who led his armies in Arabia, Greece, Syria and Anatolia. He ruled Egypt for a few months in 1848 when his father fell ill, and died before him.
Key facts
Certainty: Established
Ibrahim Pasha occupied Syria from 1831 to 1840, then was forced to withdraw after the European powers intervened.
- Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot (1984) “Egypt in the Reign of Muhammad Ali” Cambridge University Press
- M. W. Daly (ed.) (1998) “The Cambridge History of Egypt, Volume 2: Modern Egypt, from 1517 to the End of the Twentieth Century” Cambridge University Press