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The wars in Arabia (1811–1819)

The wars in Arabia (1811–1819)

Point 3 of 6 — Lesson 15: The Foreign Policy of Muhammad Ali and His WarsQuestion bank: 0 questions (0 with pictures)

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.
  • A military and political Egyptian presence in Arabia: the sultan assigned Muhammad Ali the sheikhdom of the Sacred Mosque of Mecca, and his son Ibrahim the waliya of Jeddah.
  • Egypt's scope widened to include the 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 bond to 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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