Hassan Pasha (Mamluk)

Hassan Pasha
ჰასან ფაშა
Governor of Baghdad
Reign1704 – 1723
PredecessorVizier Ali Pasha
SuccessorAhmad Pasha
Born1657
Died1723 (aged 65–66)
Burial
Adhamiyah
SpouseAishah Khanim
IssueAhmad Pasha
Fatimah Khanim
Safiyyah Khanim
HouseMamluk dynasty

Ḥassan Pasha (Arabic: حسن باشا, Georgian: ჰასან ფაშა, 1657–1723) was the governor of Baghdad from 1704 until his death in 1723 and the founder of the Mamluk dynasty in Ottoman Iraq. Of Georgian origin, he succeeded Vizier Ali Pasha.[1] He was the father of Ahmad Pasha, who succeeded him as governor as well as the grandfather of Adila Khatun, the wife of Sulaiman Pasha Abu Layla who would also take the position after Ahmad Pasha.[2]

  1. ^ Al-Azzawi, Abbas. Encyclopedia of the History of Iraq Between Two Occupations (Vol. 5). Arab House of Encyclopedias, Beirut. p. 188.
  2. ^ Al-Omari, Yassin (1917). Ghayat Al-Maram in the History of the Beauties of Baghdad, Dar Al-Salam. Arab House of Knowledge, Beirut. pp. 84 and 305.