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Title: | Preparations for Civil War in Tripoli in the 1820's: Ali Karamanli, Hassuna D'Ghies and Jeremy Bentham |
Author: | Hume, L.J. |
Year: | 1980 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
Volume: | 21 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 311-322 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Tripolitania |
Subjects: | history 1820-1829 History and Exploration |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/181186 |
Abstract: | Karamanli rule over Tripoli collapsed in 1835. But opposition to Yusef Pasha had been building up for over twenty years. Hassuna D'Ghies, the chief conspirator, visited England in the early 1820s and met the seventy-four year old English philosopher and jurist Jeremy Bentham, then busily concerned in drawing up codes of law for Spain, Portugal, Greece and other newly independent states. He readily produced a code for Tripoli, to be introduced with the Pasha's consent or (should he refuse) by armed insurrection. Nothing came of their immediate project, but when D'Ghies returned to Tripoli he tried, during his brief period as Chief Minister, to govern according to Bentham's principles. Notes. |