Obviously both of them were following Middle Eastern view of the world. Go ahead and add Afghani Kings, and primitive tree dwellers from Africa in the same list.
Muhammad Ali during his time did a lot ofthings to turn a poor province of Turkey into 20th century. He introduced a western style administration. He brought European officers in egypt to run beurocracy and train egyptian officers. He sent egyption students to universities of France and England on scholarships. He established miltary colleges and artillery schools run by europeans to train his army. He took over all the awqaf land being run by clergy in his personal possession. He established lot of industry like cotton and mills, glass, dyeing, iron etc
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In fact Mohammad Ali of Egypt in particular is perhaps the pioneer when it comes to Middle Eastern Leaders trying to ape the West with a Middle Eastern /African / tribal world view. Around his time there was an Egyptian author who wrote a book about Japan (pre-WW-II off course), and praised the Japanese for one thing. That Japanese are "standing up to the West".
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^Lot of hindus in Congress did teh same. Just read about how many Indian mainly hindu soldiers deserted British army to fight for Japanese.
As for Turkey, it was an empire eveb before Ata Turk and had a much better headsart.
Malaysians on the other hand have the same worldview as middle easterners.