Why did he do it?

I'm taking middle east history. Give me 15 weeks and I'll get back to you with an answer.

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>>1674700
>I'm taking middle east history.
1. Where
2. What are the benefits of this course

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>>1674709
>Where
Hudson Valley [spoiler]Community College[/spoiler]

>Benefits
A non-memetic understanding of the Islamic world if I'm joking. A shift of perspective and more thorough exploration of the Middle East if I were being serious.

The professor is very knowledgeable and well traveled. His first lecture was great. Thorough coverage of the middle east's geography, the thinking behind the term "middle east", it's weather, and more.

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>French Mameluke
What a world

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>>1674688
>Why did he do it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamluk#End_of_Mamluk_power_in_Egypt

>Muhammad Ali knew that he would have to deal with the Mamluks if he wanted to control Egypt. They were still the feudal owners of Egypt and their land was still the source of wealth and power. However the economic strain of sustaining the military manpower necessary to defend the Mamluks's system from the Europeans and Turks would eventually weaken them to the point of collapse.[32]

SO HE KNOCKED THEIR PUNK ASSES OUT LIKE SONNY LISTON

my guess is something like the auspicious incidents in the ottoman empire. ali pasha was trying to push a modernization and the mamluks were a lot like the janissaries at this point

>>1674688
The same reason why Ottomans massacred Janissaries. They were standing in the way of progress and modernisation. Muhammad Ali wasn't dumb, he knew that he had to modernise his state, even Ottomans were trying the same after Prince of Eugene absolutely destroyed their armies, at one point they also tried to hire Napoleon (while he was still an artillery officer) to modernise the artillery corps for example.