After his fleet was defeated at Navarino in 1827, he rebelled against the Ottomans and was granted the hereditary right to rule Egypt and the Sudan.  
He was named a viceroy of the Ottoman sultan after helping to drive out the French, and during his 44-year reign, he reorganized the administrative structure of government, converted most agricultural land into state land, and attempted to create a modern industrial system to process his country's raw materials. After his fleet was defeated at Navarino in 1827, he rebelled against the Ottomans and was granted the hereditary right to rule Egypt and the Sudan.  FTP, who massacred the Mamelukes in 1811 and founded the last dynasty to rule Egypt whose namesake is nicknamed "the Greatest".
He was named a viceroy of the Ottoman sultan after helping to drive out the French, and during his 44-year reign, he reorganized the administrative structure of government, converted most agricultural land into state land, and attempted to create a modern industrial system to process his country's raw materials.
Muhammad Ali (born Mekhmet Ali)