"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎١‎٣‎٠‎٠] (١٧٨٢/١٤٥٥)

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Internal history of Turkish 'Iraq under 'Ali Pasha, 1802-07.
Ah Pasha, the Kehijah, when he had gained the upper hand, caused
Application
of'Ali PSsba .. . „ , . ^ -rr v ^ udcu
p - f i- a ! ; tl011 for h,s 0W1, appointment to the Pashaliq to be signed by the
his appoint-
principal inhabitants of Baghdad and sent to Constantinople. " The
ment, 1802. petition was supported by a remittance of rather less than £60 000
;;and this was all that the Porte got of Suleiman Pacha's tre^
^ except some pieces of jewellery, shawls, furs, house- furniture, and rich
"India goods;" for much had already been spent in fighting the
v\ ahhabis, in contributing to the Turkish operations in Egypt, and in
placating the indignant sovereigns of both Turkey and Persia^ after the
disgraceful Karbala affair. Asad Baig, the thirteen-year-old son of the
late Sulaiman Pasha, did not figure in the transactions which followed
his father's death ; and, perhaps for this reason, a portion of his father's
wealth was allowed to become his by inheritance. The douceur trans
mitted by 'Ah Pasha, though small, was accepted by the Porte as suffi
cient ; and formal intimation of his appointment to the Pashaliq, accom
panied by a mantle of investiture, arrived at Baghdad on the 6th of
January 1803.
All Pasha, notwithstanding the resolution of character that he had
shown in destroying his early rival Ahmad Pasha and in asserting his
t ° the '^cession on the death of Snlaiman Pasha, did not prove a
snecessfnl rnler.H In 1806 the whole country was in a tnrmoil. War
a broken out between various Arab tribes in alliance and the Jarbah
branch of the Shammar, and the Vasha had ordered a military levy in
urkish Kurdistan for the purpose of attacking the confederacy and
relieving the Jarbah, w ho were hard pressed. This led to a second
rmsfoitunc. On their way from Baghdad to Kurdistan, whither both
ad been sent to eollect troops, 'Abdur Rahman Pasha, the principal
urdish chief under Turkish influence, decoyed Muhammad Pasha, the
second m importance, to his tent, where he murdered him ; and subse-
quenty he entered on a course of contumacy and rebellion against the
ag i a overnmenf. At this inauspicious moment 'Ali Pasha found
'il'ir'nT' 1 ; ^ lmpi ' Isoa hls own Kehiyah, who was acting disloyally, and
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Condition of
affairs, 1805,
membfred^ 111 " ^ * mihtar7 comirian <ler against the Wahhabis in 1798 will be re-