1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
ARABI PASHA (c. 1839- ), more correctly Amt u> 'AxABl, to which in later years he added the epithet al-Misri, " the Egyptian," Egyptian soldier and revolutionary leader, was born in Lower Egypt in 1839 or 1840 of a fellah family. Having entered the army as a conscript he was made an officer by Said Pasha in 1862, and was employed in the transport department in the Abyssinian campaign of 1875 under Ismail Pasha. A charge of peculation, unproved, was made against him in connexion with this expedition and he was place…
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