Yet the soldiers, by resisting him and his authorities and by undermining his impressive, powerful structure, proved that they were not part of this project, that they were implicated in it against their will, and that they attempted to resist it by all means possible and imaginable. Only if one uncritically believes nationalist accounts of the Pasha and his military machine, could one accept that these soldiers were indeed all the Pasha's men. I have no doubt, however, that he was not their man.

Pays off: "Soldiers preserved zones of autonomy against totalizing disciplinary power."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 1702