Halil Pasha

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

Halil Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: حلیل پاشا) was an Ottoman statesman who served as the governor of Ottoman Egypt from 1631 to 1633.[1][2] He was known for his "gentle, impartial, and prosperous administration"[3] which was in large contrast to the "rapacious" administration of his predecessor, Koca Musa Pasha.[3] In Shawwal 1041 AH (May 1632 CE), while governor, he sent an expeditionary force to the Hejaz to retake Mecca from Yemeni troops who had seized the city in the name of a pretender to the Sharifate.[4]

  1. ^ "The Ottomans". Egypt State Information Service. Archived from the original on 11 September 2009. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
  2. ^ Yılmaz Öztuna (1994). Büyük Osmanlı Tarihi: Osmanlı Devleti'nin siyasî, medenî, kültür, teşkilât ve san'at tarihi. Vol. 10. Ötüken Neşriyat A.S. pp. 412–416. ISBN 975-437-141-5.
  3. ^ a b d'Avennes, Prisse (1983) Arab art as seen through the monuments of Cairo from the 7th century to the 18th (translated from French by J.I. Erythrospis) Le Sycomore, Paris, page 61, ISBN 0-86356-000-8
  4. ^ Holt, P. M. (1961) "The beylicate in Ottoman Egypt during the seventeenth century" Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 24(2): pp. 214–248, page 242, doi:10.1017/S0041977X00091424