The peasants' revolt in Palestine was a rebellion against Egyptian conscription and taxation policies in Palestine between May and August 1834. While rebel ranks consisted mostly of the local peasantr
Ibrahim Pasha led the Egyptian army in the Levant
The citadel in Jerusalem was besieged and eventually breached by rebel forces
Encampment of Ibrahim Pasha, near Jaffa. Print by W. H. Bartlett, from 1838
Nablus, by W. C. P. Medlycott, in H. B. Tristram, 1865.
Muhammad Ali of Egypt
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Muhammad Ali was the Ottoman viceroy and governor of Albanian origin, who became the de facto ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, widely considered the founder of modern Egypt. At the height of his rule
Peasant's revolt in Palestine
…elimination of the unofficial rights and privileges previously enjoyed by the various classes of society in the Levant under Ottoman rule. As part of Muhammad Ali's modernization policies, Ibrahim Pasha, the Egyptian governor of the Levant, issued conscription orders for a fifth of all Muslim males of fighting…
Portrait by Auguste Couder, 1840
Muhammad Ali's house in Kavala, now in northeastern Greece.
Massacre of the Mamelukes by Horace Vernet, 1819. The painting depicts the 1811 massacre of Mamelukes at the Citadel of Cairo in 1811
Muhammad Ali by Jean-François Portaels, 1847