Seyyid Abdullah Pasha

For other people named Abdullah Pasha, see Abdullah Pasha (disambiguation).

Seyyid Abdullah Pasha (also known as Boynueğri Seyyid Abdullah Pasha; 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 Seyyid Hasan Pasha, who served as grand vizier one term 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

References

  1. 1 2 3 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
  2. 'Abd al-Rahman Jabarti; Thomas Philipp; Moshe Perlmann (1994). Abd Al-Rahmann Al-Jabarti's History of Egypt 1. Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart. p. 307.
Political offices
Preceded by
Tiryaki Hacı Mehmed Pasha
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
24 August 1747 – 2 January 1750
Succeeded by
Divitdar Mehmed Emin Pasha
Preceded by
Ebubekir Pasha
Ottoman Governor of Bosnia
1750–1751
Succeeded by
Köprülü Hacı Ahmed Pasha
Preceded by
Nişancı Ahmed Pasha
Ottoman Governor of Egypt
1751–1752
Succeeded by
Divitdar Mehmed Emin Pasha


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