Hain Ahmed Pasha

Hain Ahmed Pasha (Ahmed Pasha "the Traitor"; died 1524), an Ottoman governor, beylerbey, and statesman, became the Ottoman Governor of Egypt in 1523. Disappointed because he had not become Grand Vizier and because his rival Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha had been appointed (June 1523) instead, he declared himself the Sultan of Egypt, independent from the Ottoman Empire.[1][2] He struck coins with his own face and name in order to legitimize his power and captured Cairo Citadel and the local Ottoman garrisons in January 1524.[1][3] However, after surviving an assassination attempt in his bath by two emirs that he had previously sacked, he fled Cairo. Ottoman authorities finally captured him and executed him by decapitation.[3][4] His rebellion occasioned a short period of instability in the nascent Egypt Eyalet. After his death, his rival Pargalı İbrahim Pasha visited Egypt and reformed the provincial military and civil administration.[5][6]

Ahmed Pasha was of Albanian origin.[4] He was educated in the Enderun palace school.[3]

See also

• List of Ottoman governors of Egypt

References

1. Holt, P. M.; Gray, Richard (1975). Fage, J.D.; Oliver, Roland (eds.). "Egypt, the Funj and Darfur". The Cambridge History of Africa. London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. IV: 14–57. doi:10.1017/CHOL9780521204132.003.
2. Kaya Şahin (29 March 2013). Empire and Power in the Reign of Süleyman: Narrating the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman World. Cambridge University Press. p. 54. ISBN 978-1-107-03442-6.
3. Süreyya, Bey Mehmet, Nuri Akbayar, and Seyit Ali. Kahraman. Sicill-i Osmanî. Beşiktaş, İstanbul: Kültür Bakanlığı Ile Türkiye Ekonomik Ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı'nın Ortak Yayınıdır, 1890. Print.
4. Yayın Kurulu "Ahmet Paşa (Hain)", (1999), Yaşamları ve Yapıtlarıyla Osmanlılar Ansiklopedisi, İstanbul:Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat Yayıncılık A.Ş. volume 2, p.146 ISBN 975-08-0072-9
5. Raymond, André (2001). Cairo: City of History. Translated by Willard Wood (Harvard ed.). Cairo, Egypt; New York, New York: American University in Cairo Press. p. 191. ISBN 978-977-424-660-9.
6. Şahin, Kaya (2013) [2013]. "The Secretary's Progress (1523-1534): An Ottoman Grand Vizier in Action: The Egyptian Inspection". Empire and Power in the Reign of Süleyman: Narrating the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman World. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization (reprint ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 55-56. ISBN 9781107034426. Retrieved 3 February 2020. [İbrahim Pasha] reached Cairo on April 2 [1525]. He immediately set out to secure control of the province through a mixture of violence and charity. [...] However, İbrahim wanted to leave a larger impact on Egypt, and his next step was to lay down the grounds for a viable ottoman administration.