Emir Mehmed Pasha

Sayyid Emir Mehmed Pasha (Turkish: Şerif/Seyyid/Emir Mehmed Paşa), known by the epithet "al-Sharif" among his Arab subjects, was an Ottoman statesman who served as defterdar^[1] (finance minister) (1589–1593, 1595), Ottoman governor of Egypt (1596–1598),^[2][3][4] and Ottoman governor of Damascus (1599–1600).

He was a descendant of Hussein ibn Ali, earning him the epithet "sayyid." While he was the governor of Egypt (with the title beylerbey, often known as viceroy), he was reportedly a frequent visitor of the Al-Hussein Mosque in Cairo.^[2] In 1599, he became a vizier.^[1]

See also

• List of Ottoman Ministers of Finance
• List of Ottoman governors of Egypt
• List of Ottoman governors of Damascus

References

1. Mehmet Süreyya Bey (1996). Sicill-i Osmanî. 6. Kültür Bakanlığı ile Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı'nın ortak yayınıdır. pp. ii, 1687. ISBN 978-975-333-044-2.
2. Michael Winter (14 January 2004). Egyptian Society Under Ottoman Rule, 1517–1798. Taylor & Francis. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-203-16923-0.
3. Yılmaz Öztuna (1979). Başlangıcından zamanımıza kadar büyük Türkiye tarihi: Türkiye'nin siyasî, medenî, kültür, teşkilât ve san'at tarihi. Ötüken Yayınevi. p. 51.
4. İsmail Hakkı Uzunçarşılı (1945). Osmanli devletinin saray teşkilâti. Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi. p. 390.

• Süreyya, Bey M, Nuri Akbayar, and Seyit A. Kahraman. Sicill-i Osmanî. Beşiktaş, İstanbul: Kültür Bakanlığı ile Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı'nın ortak yayınıdır, 1996. Print.