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03The wars in Arabia (1811–1819)
They were fought to help destroy the followers of the call of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab of the House of Saud, who threatened the Ottoman State's influence there.
They ended with Muhammad Ali overthrowing the First Saudi State.
Their most important results
Consolidation of Muhammad Ali's position in Egypt and the raising of his status from a subordinate to an independent ruler.
Amilitary and political Egyptian presence in Arabia: the sultan assigned Muhammad Ali the sheikhdom of the Sacred Mosque of Mecca, and his sonIbrahim the waliya of Jeddah.
Egypt's scope widened to includethe Hejaz, Nejd, Asir, part of Yemen and part of the Arabian Gulf.
The Egyptian presence in the peninsula played an effective role in forming the Arab bondto face the Ottoman bond.
Britain watched his expansion with caution, because of the danger it posed to its imperial line of communications.
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