| LC control no. | n 83009078 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | ʻUrābī, Aḥmad, 1840 or 1841-1911 |
| Variant(s) | Aḥmad ʻArābī, 1840 or 1841-1911 Aḥmad ʻIrābī, 1840 or 1841-1911 Aḥmad ʻUrābī, 1840 or 1841-1911 ʻArābī, Aḥmad, 1840 or 1841-1911 ʻArabi Pasha, 1840 or 1841-1911 ʻIrābī, Aḥmad, 1840 or 1841-1911 Ourabi, Ahmad, 1840 or 1841-1911 Ourabi, Ahmed, 1840 or 1841-1911 ʻUrābī, Aḥmad, 1840 or 41-1911 ʻUrābī Pasha, 1840 or 1841-1911 أحمد عرابي عرابي، أحمد، 1911-41 or 1840 عرابي، احمد عرابي، احمد، 1840 or 1841-1911 عرابى، أحمد، 1840 أو 41-1911 |
| Associated country | Egypt |
| Birth date | [1840,1841] |
| Death date | 1911-09-21 |
| Field of activity | Egypt--History--Autonomy and independence movements |
| Affiliation | Ḥizb al-Waṭanī (Egypt) |
| Profession or occupation | Egypt--Armed Forces--Officers Nationalists lcsh |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | Secret history of occupation of Egypt, 1907. The Illustrated London news, June 10, 1882, cover page (Arabi Pasha, the wood-be dictator of Egypt) Wikipedia, March 13, 2019 (Ahmed ʻUrabi; ; Colonel Ahmed ʻUrabi or Ourabi; known in English and by himself as Ahmad Ourabi; born 31 March 1841 in the village of Hirriyat Razna near Zagazig, Sharqia Governate; Egyptian nationalist, revolutionary, and officer of the Egyptian army; the first political and military leader in Egypt to rise from the fellahin; enrolled in Al-Azhar University in 1849 to complete his schooling; entered the army and rose through the ranks quickly, becoming lieutenant colonel by age 20 (made possible by reforms of Khedive Ismail); a galvanizing speaker, and considered an authentic voice of Egypt due to his peasant origins; he and followers in 1879 formed the Egyptian Nationalist Party [al-Ḥizb al-Waṭanī); participated in an 1879 mutiny that developed into a general revolt against the Anglo-French dominated administration of Khedive Tewfik; he was promoted to Tewfik's cabinet and began reforms of Egypt's military and civil administrations; but the demonstrations of 1882 prompted a British bombardment and invasion that deposed ʻUrabi in favor of a British occupation; after surrender to the British he was tried for rebellion, with British defense and intervention; sentenced to death but immediately commuted to banishment for life, to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka); there he worked to improve the quality of education among Muslims; in May 1901, Khedive Abbas II, Tewfik's son and successor, permitted him to return to Egypt in 1901; he died there on 21 September 1911) |
| Associated language | ara |
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