ʿUrābī Pasha — Encyclopaedia Britannica

Encyclopaedia Britannica entry on ʿUrābī Pasha; used for entity facts only. It dates his birth to 1839 (against the other sources' agreed 31 March 1841), describes him as Egypt's minister of war and the leader of a revolt that proclaimed the Khedive a traitor, and records that he died 'an unpopular figure in relative obscurity', his image revitalised in the 1950s under Nasser.