Seyyid Abdullah Pasha
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1747 to 1750
For other people named Abdullah Pasha, see Abdullah Pasha (disambiguation).
In this Ottoman Turkish style name, the given name is Seyyid, the title is Pasha, and there is no family name.
Seyyid Abdullah Pasha (also known as Boynueğri Seyyid Abdullah Pasha "Seyyid Abdullah Pasha the Crooked-neck"; died March 1761, Aleppo) was an Ottoman statesman who served as grand vizier from 1747 to 1750. He also served as the Ottoman governor of Cyprus (1745–46, again in 1746–47), Rakka (1746), Konya (1750), Bosnia (1750–51), Egypt (1751–52), Diyarbekir (1752–60), and Aleppo (1760).[1][2]
Abdullah Pasha was born in Kirkuk, the son of Blond Seyyid Hasan-aga, who served as grand sheyhulislam of the Ottoman Empire before him. He attended the Enderun palace school as a youth and became a vizier in December 1745.[1]
He died in office as governor of Aleppo in March 1760.[1]
See also
[edit]- List of Ottoman grand viziers
- List of Ottoman governors of Egypt
- List of Ottoman governors of Bosnia
References
[edit]- ^ Jump up to: a b c Mehmet Süreyya (1996) [1890], Nuri Akbayar; Seyit A. Kahraman (eds.), Sicill-i Osmanî (in Turkish), Beşiktaş, Istanbul: Türkiye Kültür Bakanlığı and Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı, p. 80, ISBN 978-975-333-041-1
- ^ 'Abd al-Rahman Jabarti; Thomas Philipp; Moshe Perlmann (1994). Abd Al-Rahmann Al-Jabarti's History of Egypt. Vol. 1. Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart. p. 307.
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| Preceded by | Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire 24 August 1747 – 2 January 1750 |
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| Preceded by | Ottoman Governor of Bosnia 1750–1751 |
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| Preceded by | Ottoman Governor of Egypt 1751–1752 |
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