It must be admitted that the memory of this murder must have had the effect of rendering Ali badly disposed towards Christians.
Mouktar left three sons, two of whom, Salik and Mahomet, were born of the same mother, a lawful wife, but the mother of the youngest, Veli, was a slave.

His origin was no legal bar to his succeeding like his brothers.

The family was one of the richest in the town of Tepelen, whose name it bore; it enjoyed an income of six thousand piastres, equal to twenty thousand francs.

This was a large fortune in a poor country, where, all commodities were cheap.

But the Tepeleni family, holding the rank of beys, had to maintain a state like that of the great financiers of feudal Europe.