Hain Ahmed Pasha (
lit. Ahmed Pasha 'the Traitor'; died 1524), was an
Ottoman governor (
beylerbey) and a statesman, who became the Ottoman
governor of
Egypt Eyalet in 1523.
Early life
Ahmed Pasha was of
Georgian origin.[1] He was educated in the
Enderun palace school.[2]
Declaring himself the sultan of Egypt
Hain Ahmed Pasha wanted to become the
grand vizier, to become the grand vizier, Hain Ahmed Pasha tried to persuade
Suleiman the Magnificent to dismiss
Piri Mehmed Pasha, using the old age of Piri Mehmed Pasha as an excuse, and ultimately succeeded. His rival
Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha was then appointed (June 1523) instead as grand vizier, so Hain Ahmed Pasha offered Suleiman I. to make him the governor of
Egypt Eyalet, which got accepted by Suleiman I. When Hain Ahmed Pasha went to Egypt, he declared himself the sultan of Egypt, independent from the Ottoman Empire.[3][4] 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.[3][2]
Death
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.[2][1] 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]
Family
Ahmed married
Ilaldi Sultan, a daughter of Sultan
Bayezid II.
They had at least a son and a daughter:[7]
Sultanzade Koçî Bey. He married his cousin Hanzade Hanımsultan, the daughter of
Selçuk Sultan (daughter of Bayezid II) and had a son, Ahmed Çelebi.
Şahzade Aynişah Hanımsultan (died in 1570). She married Abdüsselâm Çelebi and had a daughter, Ümmihan Hanım.
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abYayın Kurulu "Ahmet Paşa (Hain)", (1999), Yaşamları ve Yapıtlarıyla Osmanlılar Ansiklopedisi, İstanbul:Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat Yayıncılık A.Ş. volume 2, p.146
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abcSüreyya, 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.
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abHolt, P. M.; Gray, Richard (1975). Fage, J.D.; Oliver, Roland (eds.). "Egypt, the Funj and Darfur". The Cambridge History of Africa. IV. London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press: 14–57.
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10.1017/CHOL9780521204132.003.
ISBN9781139054584.
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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.
ISBN978-977-424-660-9.
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Şahin, Kaya (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. pp. 55–56.
ISBN9781107034426. 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.
^Gökbilgin, M. Tayyib (1952). XV-XVI. asırlarda Edirne ve Paşa Livası: vakıflar, mulkler, mukataalar . Üçler Basımevi. p. 380.