[quote=@Letter Bee]
All right. Got a burst of inspiration. I'm gonna be overrunning the Hedjaz soon.

[@Dinh AaronMk], would asking for a Hashemite in marriage to my dynasty be impolitic as well as unrealistic?

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The Muhammad Ali dynasty was more aligned with that of the Turks who positioned themselves closer to Europe than to the Arabs. From what I can tell many of the wives of Muhammad Ali were themselves either Turkish, Albanian, Bulgarian, or Muslim-Caucasian and not strictly Egyptian or Arab. It's possible an opportunistic marriage could be pursued as an option, but the first thing Muhammad Ali and his heirs seem to go to was a military expedition. The long term for the Hashemites would be eventually their traditional holdings being absorbed by the Egyptian state. This also interferes with the Arab territories of the Ottoman Empire, and affecting the imbalance of the area would make the Ottomans mad.

The Egyptian-Saudi Wars were not carried out as an independent act of the Egypt of Muhammad Pasha, but by order of the Ottoman court to their fellow Turkish court in Egypt to put down what they considered was an Arab rebellion.