Ahmad Khurshid Pasha

Ahmad Khurshid Pasha

Ahmad Khurshid Pasha (Lang-ar|أحمد خورشيد باشا) was an Ottoman official. Appointed mayor of Alexandria after the French evacuated Egypt in 1801, [cite web | author = Ahmad Fadl Shabloul | title = List of governors of Alexandria (1798-2000) | language = Arabic | url = http://www.amwague.net/amwague/dec/ketab.htm | accessdate = 2008-08-24] 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.

ee also

*Muhammad Ali's seizure of power
*List of Ottoman "Wālis" of Egypt

References

;General
*Citation
last = Goldschmidt
first = A.
year = 2000
title = Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt
publisher = American University in Cairo Press
page = 106
isbn = 9789774245794
oclc = 45089356;Specific

s-ttl|title=Mayor of Alexandria
years=1802 – 1803s-ttl|title=Mayor of Alexandria
years=1804s-ttl|title="Wāli" of Egypt
years=1804 – 1805


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