As the historians Goldschmidt and Davidson note, "Mehmet Ali was the first non-Western ruler to grasp the significance of the Industrial Revolution. He realized that a modernized army would need textile factories to make its tents and uniforms, dockyards to build its ships, and munitions plants to turn out guns and bayonets." This realization resulted in the wholesale restructuring and modernization of Egyptian society.

XREF: Relates to industrial revolution history and modernization theory; echoes Gerschenkron's late-industrialization framework.

Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politi…, loc. 299