HIST 46 Lecture 1: Oct 4 lecture
Document Summary
1872 dar al-ulum educate modern school teachers. 1886 school of law: personal status law is mostly islamic, but everything else is secular law. 1876 mixed courts: made it so that foreigners didn"t go to their own courts, was multi-nationality judges. 1869 suez canal completed: was very expensive and led to bankruptcy to egypt, b/c of that, egypt turns to europeans for money and become weaker. 1876 egypt bankrupt: public debt commission established: made sure that debt was paid off first before doing new projects. Khedive tawfiq succeeds father and liquidated everything to pay off debts: held back promotions in army, law of liquidation forced egyptians to sell state property to pay off debt. This caused disrest in the army and urabi led the protest. 1882 urabi becomes minister of war and wanted to limit the spending power of. 1882 anti-foreigner rioting in alexandria: urabi tried to put it down, but britain invades and occupies egypt.
