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Map of Egypt under Muhammad Ali's dynasty. The Muhammad Ali dynasty or the Alawiyya dynasty was the ruling dynasty of Egypt and Sudan from the 19th to the mid-20th century. It is named after its progenitor, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, regarded as the founder of modern Egypt.
The dynasty claims descent from Muhammad via Hasan, the son of Ali.The name 'Alawi (Arabic: علوي) stems either from the name of Ali (the father of Hasan), [16] from which the dynasty ultimately traces its descent, or from the name of the dynasty's early founder Ali al-Sharif of the Tafilalt. [17]
The dynasty, which remains the ruling monarchy of Morocco today, originated from the Tafilalt region and rose to power following the collapse of the Saadi Sultanate in the 17th century. Sultan al-Rashid (r. 1666–1672) was the first to establish his authority over the entire country.
Today, the palace serves as a museum. The palace originally belonged to Prince Mohamed Ali , the second son of Tewfik Pasha and the brother of Khedive Abbas II . Prince Mohamed Ali held the position of crown prince three times and was one of the three regents during the period between the death of King Fuad I and the ascension of King Farouk to ...
Alawi dynasty, the current royal family of Morocco since the 17th century; Alawiyya dynasty, the former royal family of Egypt and Sudan; Alavids, the Zaydi Alid dynasty of Tabaristan in northern Iran during the 9th and 10th centuries; Ba 'Alawi sada, a family and social group in Yemen and descendants of Imam Ahmad al-Muhajir through Alawi bin ...
Alawites [b] are an Arab ethnoreligious group [16] who live primarily in the Levant region in West Asia and follow Alawism. [17] A sect of Islam that splintered from early Shia as a ghulat branch during the ninth century, [18] [19] [20] Alawites venerate Ali ibn Abi Talib, the "first Imam" in the Twelver school, as a manifestation of the divine essence.
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In layman and academic parlance, the name of a dynasty is often affixed before the common name of a state in reference to a state under the rule of a particular dynasty. For example, whereas the official name of the realm ruled by the Qajar dynasty was the "Sublime State of Iran", the domain is commonly known as " Qajar Iran ".