Sofu Hadım Ali Pasha
Hadım Ali Pasha (also known as Sofu Ali Pasha or Sufi Ali Pasha;[1] died September 1560) was an Ottoman statesman who served as the Ottoman governor of Diyarbekir Eyalet (1537/38 – 1540/41), Bosnia Eyalet (1552 to April 1559), and Egypt Eyalet (April 1559 until his death in office in September 1560).[2]
In 1560, Ali Pasha blocked the reappointment of Seydi Ali Reis to the rank of admiral after his long journey back from Aceh, which was being pushed by Rüstem Pasha.[1] Instead, Sefer Reis was promoted to the supreme command of the Ottoman Empire's entire Indian Ocean fleet.[1]
Ali Pasha died in September 1560 while still in office as the governor of Egypt.[2] He was buried in the Cairo Necropolis in Cairo.[2] After his death, Ali Pasha's vakıf (legacy endowment) had Ali Pasha's Mosque built in Sarajevo (from which he had governed the Bosnia Eyalet) in the classical Istanbul architectural style.
References
- Giancarlo Casale (26 January 2010). The Ottoman Age of Exploration. Oxford University Press. p. 110. ISBN 978-0-19-979879-7.
- Mehmet Süreyya (1996) [1890], Nuri Akbayar; Seyit A. Kahraman (eds.), Sicill-i Osmanî (in Turkish), 1, Beşiktaş, Istanbul: Türkiye Kültür Bakanlığı and Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı, p. 287
- "The Ottomans". Egypt State Information Service. Retrieved 2013-10-10.
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| Preceded by Iskender Pasha |
Ottoman Governor of Egypt 1559–1560 |
Succeeded by Kara Şahin Mustafa Pasha |