Urābī Pashaʿ

Urābī Pashaʿ

▪ Egyptian nationalist
ʿUrābī also spelled  Arabi , in full  Aḥmad ʿUrābī Pasha al-Miṣrī 
born 1839, near Al-Zaqāzīq, Egypt
died , Sept. 21, 1911, Cairo

      Egyptian nationalist who led a social-political movement that expressed the discontent of the Egyptian educated classes, army officials, and peasantry with foreign control.

      ʿUrābī, the son of a village sheikh, studied in Cairo at al-Azhar (Azhar University, al-), the preeminent institution of Arabic and Islamic learning. Conscripted into the army, he rose to the rank of colonel after serving as a commissariat officer during the Egyptian-Ethiopian war of 1875–76. In 1879 he participated in the officers' revolt against the khedive Ismāʿīl Pasha.

      Early in his career ʿUrābī joined a secret society within the army with the object of eliminating the Turkish and Circassian officers who monopolized the highest ranks. In 1881 he led a revolt against this dominance. The following year, intervention by the European powers and the dispute about the rights of the Egyptian Assembly concerning budget controls led to the formation of the nationalist ministry of Maḥmūd Sāmī al-Bārūdī, with ʿUrābī as minister of war. ʿUrābī emerged as the national hero under the slogan “Miṣr li'l Miṣriyyīn” (“Egypt for Egyptians”). khedive Tawfīq (Tawfīq Pasha, Muḥammad), threatened by ʿUrābī's increasing popularity, requested the assistance of the French and British, who promptly staged a naval demonstration in the bay of Alexandria. Riots then broke out in Alexandria; when the British fleet bombarded the city (July 1882), ʿUrābī, who was commander in chief of the Egyptian army, organized the resistance and proclaimed the khedive a traitor. ʿUrābī's army was defeated at Tall al-Kabīr (Sept. 13, 1882) by British troops that had landed at Ismailia under the command of Sir Garnet Wolseley (Wolseley, Garnet, 1st Viscount). ʿUrābī Pasha was captured, court-martialed, and sentenced to death, but, with British intervention, the sentence was changed to exile in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). He was permitted to return to Egypt in 1901. Although ʿUrābī died an unpopular figure in relative obscurity, his image was revitalized in the 1950s by Gamal Abdel Nasser (Nasser, Gamal Abdel), whose rise to power bore similarities to ʿUrābī's.

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