AHMED URABI (also known as Ahmed Ourabi or Arabi Pasha, 1841-1911, Egyptian Military Officer)

Signature in Arabic and in English as "A. Arabi Pasha the Egyptian" with the place and date on a card, 3” x 1¾”, laid down on a larger piece, Cairo, 12th December

He was the first political and military leader in Egypt to rise from the fellahin (peasantry). He participated in an 1879 mutiny that developed into the ʻUrabi revolt against the administration of Khedive Tewfik, which was under the influence of an Anglo-French consortium. He was promoted to Tewfik's cabinet and began reforms of Egypt's military and civil administrations, but the demonstrations in Alexandria of 1882 prompted a British bombardment and invasion which led to the capture of ʻUrabi and his allies and the imposition of British control in Egypt. ʻUrabi and his allies were sentenced by Tewfik into exile far away in British Ceylon, as a form of punishment.

Item Date:  1903

Stock No:  43608      £125

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