Mohamed Ali arrested Coptic civil servants and levied sums of money on them. Guirguis El Gohary was the leading Coptic civil servant and Mohamed Ali extorted his money from him. Mohamed Ali elevated Moalem Ghali to prominence only to order him killed in 1822 to be succeeded by his son Moalem Basilious. Similarly in 1817, Mohamed Ali re-imposed the dress codes on Copts barring them from wearing white turbans, in the last instance of dress codes being imposed in Egypt.
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