Greco-Arabic alliances?

Would, or could, the Greek peoples or any other Orthodox Balkan peoples have ever worked with Arab peoples (like say, the Egyptians) to oppose the Ottoman or Turkish peoples at any time post-1453? Or even before the fall of Constantinople.
 
Would, or could, the Greek peoples or any other Orthodox Balkan peoples have ever worked with Arab peoples (like say, the Egyptians) to oppose the Ottoman or Turkish peoples at any time post-1453? Or even before the fall of Constantinople.

This supposes that an "Arab" people even remotely felt like being "Arab" nad politcal relevancy whatsoever. At the time, they usually felt Muslims (or Christians) first. Arab nationalism (or Turkish nationalism, for that matter) was a much later thing.
A feeling of Arab identity existed of course, and Arabs were proud of their Arabness, but this feeling only operated in culture, not in the political sphere. By the way, most of the time it the Greeks were reasonably happy with Ottoman rule as well.
It may work after late 1700, I think. Before that is very hard.
A possible scenario could involve Muhammad Ali falling out with Constantinople much earlier, and allying with Greek rebels instead of fighting them, in the 1820. Not very likely, but possible. Even then, though, Muhammad Ali was not an Arab in any meaningful sense. His dynasty tried to give the "Arab" feeling some more political content, but it didn't work much and happened later anyway.
 
Would, or could, the Greek peoples or any other Orthodox Balkan peoples have ever worked with Arab peoples (like say, the Egyptians) to oppose the Ottoman or Turkish peoples at any time post-1453? Or even before the fall of Constantinople.

Re-reading your question, given the opportunity, they probably would.
Muslim-Christian alliances were commonplaces. Actually, the Greeks before the fall of Constantinople worked with the Ottomans or any other Turkish group at any time they thought it suited their interests. Greek Trabzon had a long-standing alliance with the Aq Qoyunlu, a Turkmen tribal group hostile to the Ottomans.
I suppose that if any suitable "Arab" polity emerged somewhere in the area, they would have absolutely no problem in cooperating with it. Heck, they tried to ally with Tamerlane when he showed in Anatolia.
 
Mohammad Ali Pasha crushes the Greek rebellion for Sultan Mahmud II and Ibrahim Pasha ends up becoming the ruler of the Peloponnese. However relations between the growing power of Mohammad Ali's Egyptian realm and the weakening Ottoman Empire decline and the Albanian pasha decides to cut a deal with the surviving Greek revolutionaries and guerrilla groups to establish an independent Hellenic state based in the Morea and Roumeli in exchange for providing assistance in his upcoming war against the Ottomans. Mohammad gets his son Ibrahim Pasha to withdraw from the Morea and gather up an army mixed of Greeks and Egyptian Arab transplants to seize much of Anatolia.

The Great Powers of Russia, France and Britain intervene and keep Ibrahim Pasha's army from advancing towards Constantinople. They recognize the independence of Greece and the conquests of Mohammad Ali and his son Ibrahim right up to the intervention. The Ottoman Sultans are left with a rump empire in western Anatolia and all the Balkans north of Attica.

It's a big stretch and it's probably ASB. :p
 
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