The Muhammad Ali Dynasty (Arabic: أسرة محمد علي Usrat Muhammad 'Ali; Turkish: Mehmet Ali Paşa Hanedanı) was the ruling dynasty of Egypt and Sudan, from the 19th to the mid-20th Century. It is named after its progenitor, Muhammad Ali Pasha, regarded as the founder of modern Egypt. It was also more formally known as the Alawiyya Dynasty (Arabic: الأسرة العلوية al-Usra al-'Alawiyya). Because a majority of the rulers from this dynasty bore the title Khedive, it was often referred to by contemporaries as the 'Khedival Dynasty'.
Read more about Muhammad Ali Dynasty: Introduction, Khedivate and British Occupation, Sultanate and Kingdom, Dissolution, Reigning Members of The Muhammad Ali Dynasty (1805–1952), Non Ruling Members
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“That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn’t entirely conquer—he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)