ABSTRACT
The growth of European, and notably British, influence in Egypt's internal affairs during the last quarter of the nineteenth century was marked by a more and more vocal resentment on the part of the country's increasingly influential non-European intelligentsia. Out of this resentment there developed the National Movement, which eventually led to the Arabi—or more correctly 'Urābī—rebellion of 1882. The crushing of the Arabi revolt secured the establishment of European influence for the next 40 years and a paramount place among the European powers for Britain. It also prostrated the National Movement till the end of the First World War.
