Ismail Pasha (Tripolitanian)

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

Ismail Pasha (fl. 1780–1792) was an Ottoman statesman of Georgian origin, he grew up in Tunis during the reign of Ali Pasha (1759-1782).[1][2] Because of this, he became the kethüda (assistant/deputy) of Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha, the famous Kapudan Pasha.[2] He would go on to serve as the Ottoman governor of Egypt Eyalet (1788–89, 1789–91) and Morea Eyalet (1791–92).[2][3]

  1. ^ Ibn Abī al-Ḍiyāf, Aḥmad. Itḥāf ahl al-zamān bi-akhbār mulūk Tūnis wa-ʻahd al-amān, Tunis, al-Dār al-Tūnisīyah lil-Nashr, 1990. pp. Vol 7, Biography 2.
  2. ^ a b c 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. 829, ISBN 9789753330411
  3. ^ 'Abd al-Rahman Jabarti; Thomas Philipp; Moshe Perlmann (1994). Abd Al-Rahmann Al-Jabarti's History of Egypt. Vol. 2. Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart. p. 315. At the beginning of Ramadan a Tatar messenger arrived bearing an edict deposing Isma'il Pasha and that he should direct himself to Morea while the pasha of Morea, Muhammad Pasha, who had been in Jidda the previous year and was known as 'Izzat, was to be governor of Egypt.