Moreover, the army that the Pasha established benefited from a remarkable working relationship between Mehmed Ali and his son, Ibrahim Pasha. Occasionally tensions would surface between father and son, but on the whole and for the best part of the Pasha's rule the relationship between these two remarkable men was amicable, and it allowed Mehmed Ali to devote his energy to the exploitation of the province's manpower to enhance agricultural and commercial revenues, while leaving for his son the task of exploiting the services of the male population for the military.

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 1379