Egypt
Appointed mayor of Alexandria after the French evacuated Egypt in 1801, he was named Egypt's wāli (governor) in 1804 at Muhammad Ali's behest. Allied with Britain's diplomatic representative, Khurshid tried to get Muhammad Ali and his Albanians removed from Egypt, bringing in the Delhi (madmen) troops from Syria. Muhammad Ali managed to win the Delhis to his side and, backed by a demonstration of ulema and guild leaders in Cairo, had himself named governor of Egypt in May 1805. Khurshid, abandoned by his troops, was besieged in the Cairo Citadel, which he left only after he saw the Ottoman firman investing Muhammad Ali as Egypt's governor.
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