:For the HMS Khedive, see USS Cordova. A khedive (from Persian: "lord"; Arabic: خديوي ) is a title of high, ministerial rank in the Ottoman Empire, first, and nearly exclusively, used by Muhammad Ali Pasha and his subsequent line of dynastic successors, who ruled Egypt and Sudan from 1805 to 1914. Muhammad Ali Pasha (c. 1769 - 1849) assumed the title when he took power in 1805. As a general (with the high rank of pasha) of the Ottoman Empire, he'd driven Napol… (More on Khedive)