Tewfik Pasha

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Mohamed Tewfik Pasha (Arabic: محمد توفيق باشا Muḥammad Tawfīq Bāshā; April 30 or 15 November 1852 – 7 January 1892), also known as Tawfiq of Egypt, was Khedive of Egypt and the Sudan between 1879 and 1892 and the sixth ruler from the Muhammad Ali dynasty. He inherited a state suffering under the financial and political mismanagement of his predecessor Isma'il. Disaffection in the Egyptian army as well as Anglo-French control of the state in the 1880s culminated in the anti-foreign Urabi revolt. In 1882, Egypt became a British protectorate. Tewfik also took interest in matters concerning irrigation, education and justice; as well as sold his father's female slaves and closed the court's harem quarters.

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