Kara Mustafa Pasha (governor of Egypt)

Kara · Damat
Mustafa
Ottoman Governor of Egypt
In office
16 February 1624 – 16 May 1626
MonarchMurad IV
Preceded byÇeşteci Ali Pasha
Succeeded byBayram Pasha
In office
20 July 1623 – 9 October 1623
MonarchsMustafa I
Murad IV
Preceded bySilahdar Ibrahim Pasha
Succeeded byÇeşteci Ali Pasha
Personal details
Died1628
NationalityOttoman
Spouse
(m. 1623)

Kara Mustafa Pasha (died 1628)[1] was an Ottoman statesman who served twice as the Ottoman governor of Egypt,[2][3] firstly from 20 July to 9 October 1623 and secondly from 12 February 1624 to 16 May 1626.[3] He also served earlier as the agha (chief) of the Janissary corps in 1623.[2]

Mustafa Pasha was educated in the Enderun palace school.[2] He married Fatma Sultan, a daughter of Sultan Ahmed I, in 1628[2] but was executed that same year by the reigning Sultan (and his new brother-in-law) Murad IV.[1]

  1. ^ a b Accounts and Extracts of the Manuscripts in the Library of the King of France. Vol. 2. R. Faulder. 1789. p. 51.
  2. ^ a b c d 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, ISBN 9789753330411
  3. ^ a b Yılmaz Öztuna (1994). Büyük Osmanlı Tarihi: Osmanlı Devleti'nin siyasî, medenî, kültür, teşkilât ve san'at tarihi (in Turkish). Vol. 10. Ötüken Neşriyat A.S. pp. 412–416. ISBN 975-437-141-5.

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