Ibrahim, however, does not appear to have had any illusions as to the dynastic nature of the struggle between his family and the Ottomans. After each military victory he accomplished in the Syrian campaign he wrote to the various notables ordering them to pray for the health and happiness of "our father, the vali of Egypt." When he thought that the Ottomans were spreading rumors about him and his father in their Vekayi, he ordered a scribe to write down his version of events and to send it to Acre to be translated there into French so as to dispatch it to Europe. On receiving these orders, Vehid Efendi, Ibrahim Yeğen's scribe, suggested that it might not be the right moment to do so considering that fighting was at its peak; Ibrahim answered angrily, "These matters will be written in history books, and a hundred years from now it will be said that Mehmed Ali did this and that. Is this not so, you animal?"

XREF: Connects to loc 171 about King Fouad curating archives to craft dynastic narrative — both rulers manipulated historical records for dynastic legitimacy. SEED: Could explore how military victors cultivate historians versus soldiers as strategy to secure legacy. Builds on: "King Fouad curated archival documents to craft a flattering dynastic narrative."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 1318