MEHEMET ALI, or MOHAMMED ALI, or MOHAMMAD 'ALEE, Pasha of Egypt, was born in 1769, rose by military energy to the pashalic of Cairo in 1806, seized upon Syria in 1830, but was deprived of it by the sultan in 1840, after the intervention of the European powers, when the pashalic of Egypt was made hereditary in his family. He administered the affairs of Egypt till 1848, and died in 1849, aged eighty years. (For a full account of his career, see the article EGYPT.)