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Muhammad: Age
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It was a brutal end to what was really a brutal regime, and afterwards, Muhammad Ali was free to pursue a more advantageous agenda. It was Mohammad Ali who established the long-staple cotton as a cash crop in Egypt that is today famous throughout the world. It was perhaps, more than for any other reason, what allowed him to bring Egypt into the modern era, though many years later, the collapse of the cotton market would ... spell the downfall of his descendants. Indeed, Muhammad Ali ordered the majority of Egyptian peasants to cultivate cotton rather than any other crops. Mohammad Ali would then buy all of the cotton from these farmers, mark it up, and in turn sell it to the textile manufacturers. Thus, for many years, cotton production became a major sponsor of the state economy, and of the royal treasury in particular.
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At the age of twenty five while in the caravan business, Muhammad entered the service of a wealthy widow named Khadija. She was impressed by him and though she was fifteen years older than him, their relationship soon evolved into marriage and the marriage turned out to be a happy one.
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The status of several of Muhammad's wives is disputed by scholars. Maria al-Qibtiyya may have been a slave, a freed slave, or a wife. Aisha was six or seven years old when betrothed to Muhammad. She stayed in her parents' home until the age of nine, when the marriage was consummated.
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