1834 Arab Revolt In Palestine

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The 1834 Arab revolt in Palestine was a reaction to conscription into the Egyptian army by the W¿li Muhammad Ali. Ali, as a part of a modernisation policy, began the conscription of ordinary subjects. Traditionally, soldiers were recruited from freebooters, loot-seekers, mercenaries, slaves or members of a military caste. The imposition of a conscription levy led to a revolt in Palestine, headed by the prominent Arab clans of Nablus, Hebron and the Jerusalem-Jaffa area. Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal argue that the 1834 Palestinian Arab revolt was a formative event, in that it forged a unity among disparate groups against a common enemy: the various classes and clans who fought in it are precisely those that reemerged later to constitute the Palestinian people.