Muhammad Ali Pasha al-Mas’ud ibn Agha (Ottoman Turkish: محمد علی پاشا المسعود بن آغا; Arabic: محمد علي باشا / ALA-LC: Muḥammad ‘Alī Bāshā; Albanian: Mehmet Ali Pasha; Turkish: Kavalalı Mehmet Ali Paşa; 4 March 1769 – 2 August 1849) was a commander in the Ottoman army who became Wāli and self-declared Khedive of Egypt and Sudan with the Ottoman’s temporary approval.
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