WI: Europe didn't Intervene in the Second Egyptian-Ottoman War?

What if the the Europeans, most notably Britain, didn't join the war? Would the Ottomans collapse? Would the Balance of power be broken? Who would take advantage of the weak Ottomans? How would this affect Egypt?
 

raharris1973

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I wonder if Muhammad Ali would keep ruling from Egypt, or just conquer Constantinople and move there, setting up him and his descendants as the new Imperial dynasty.
 
I wonder if Muhammad Ali would keep ruling from Egypt, or just conquer Constantinople and move there, setting up him and his descendants as the new Imperial dynasty.
His power base was in Cairo. I would imagine keeping there was better. Lots of men and resources there. Keeping themselves to the Levant, Hejaz, Sudan, Syria, Some Greek Islands... After the war we can probably expect Europeans picking at the Balkans and Anatolia.
 
His power base was in Cairo. I would imagine keeping there was better. Lots of men and resources there. Keeping themselves to the Levant, Hejaz, Sudan, Syria, Some Greek Islands... After the war we can probably expect Europeans picking at the Balkans and Anatolia.
Ottomans would prob keep Iraq.
 

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What if the the Europeans, most notably Britain, didn't join the war?

Weren't the British and Russians (and Austrians and Prussians, if only in spirit) on the Ottoman side in this war? I think it was only the French who were pro-Egyptian.

Ottomans would prob keep Iraq.

What about the Persians getting it? Or the Persians getting it as "compensation" for Russian expansion into Armenian, Azerbaijan, Kurdistan and assorted other pieces of the northern Persian and Ottoman frontiers.

It would look better for him to rule Egypt, and the Ottomans wouldn't allow that,

If Muhammad Ali is fighting versus the Ottomans one-on-one, he might win hard enough the Ottomans are not in a position to "not allow" anything.
 

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His power base was in Cairo. I would imagine keeping there was better. Lots of men and resources there. Keeping themselves to the Levant, Hejaz, Sudan, Syria, Some Greek Islands... After the war we can probably expect Europeans picking at the Balkans and Anatolia.

That's a huge empire, encompassing most of the core Arab world, if the Egyptians get to keep it and rule it all from Cairo.

With the possible exception of Iraq, it somewhat "de-Arabizes" the empire, maybe leading to an earlier Turkish adoption of latin script. Also, if the Ottomans do not face equally large losses in Europe at the same time, it's going to reduce the percentage of Muslims in the Empire a bit.
 
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