“By the 1850s, Khedive Said Pasha (khedive is the title Ottomans gave to Egypt’s governors) granted French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps permission to construct a canal. It was accomplished by the Suez Canal Company and was given a... more
“By the 1850s, Khedive Said Pasha (khedive is the title Ottomans gave to Egypt’s governors) granted French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps permission to construct a canal. It was accomplished by the Suez Canal Company and was given a 99-year lease over the waterway and surrounding. area. In the 1830s, a work of French explorer and engineer Linant de Bellefonds had performed a survey of the Isthmus of Suez which confirmed that the Mediterranean and Red seas were at the same level of altitude. Thus, making construction of a canal significantly easier. “Lesseps created the International Commission for the Piercing of the Isthmus of Suez. The commission was made up of 13 experts, including Alois Negrelli, a leading civil engineer. Negrelli built upon the work of Bellefonds and his original survey of the region. Construction began, at Port Said in early 1859. The work took 10 years, and an estimated 1.5 million people worked on the project. By that time, Egypt was effectually ruled by Britain and France. Khedive Ismail Pasha formally opened the Suez Canal on 17 November 1869.
L’esperienza di governo turco-egiziano in Sudan, dalle prime conquiste in Kordofan e Sinnar nel 1820-21, alla costruzione di un’entità statuale unitaria, fino al declino e al conseguente sfaldamento del dominio del Cairo sul Sudan che si... more
L’esperienza di governo turco-egiziano in Sudan, dalle prime conquiste in Kordofan e Sinnar nel 1820-21, alla costruzione di un’entità statuale unitaria, fino al declino e al conseguente sfaldamento del dominio del Cairo sul Sudan che si realizza nel 1881.
As not much is known about how Sheikh Abdullah Quilliam (1856-1932), the founder of England’s first mosque and the first imam, was viewed outside of Britain in the Ottoman Empire, Africa or Asia, I have great pleasure to introduce and... more
As not much is known about how Sheikh Abdullah Quilliam (1856-1932), the founder of England’s first mosque and the first imam, was viewed outside of Britain in the Ottoman Empire, Africa or Asia, I have great pleasure to introduce and present for the first time a translation of an early Arab eyewitness account of the Liverpool Muslims from 1892 (but published in 1893).
