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Muhammad Ali's rise to power
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==Muhammad Ali assumes control and captures Ahmed Pasha== Tahir was replaced as commander of the Albanians by Muhammad Ali, one of the regimental commanders. Fearing for his position with the Ottomans, he entered into an alliance with the Mamluk leaders [[Ibrahim Bey (Mamluk)|Ibrahim Bey]] and [[Osman Bey al-Bardisi]]. With Hüsrev Pasha fortifying himself at Damietta, the Turkish troops in the vicinity of Cairo acclaimed [[Muftizade Ahmed Pasha]], the Ottoman mayor of [[Medina]] (and previously Damietta), as their new governor. Muhammad Ali, however, refused to surrender Cairo to him. In reordering his forces to meet the new threat, he also removed the Mamluks from [[Giza]], where they had been invited by his predecessor, Tahir. Muftizade Ahmed Pasha established himself at the [[Mosque of al-Zahir Baybars|mosque of Baybars]], which the French had converted into a fortress, but was eventually besieged by Muhammad Ali and his Albanian troops in the [[citadel of Cairo]] and compelled to surrender. Among the prisoners, those Turkish troops who had been involved in the assassination of Tahir Pasha were put to death.
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