Hekimoğlu Ali Pasha

علي باشا حكيم أوغلو

16 February 1699 CE · 1110 AH

Ali Pasha, nicknamed 'Hekimoğlu' (son of the physician), son of the palace chief physician Nuh Efendi; born 1110/1699, 'the most excellent of his brothers'; governor of Anatolia, Tabriz and Diyarbekir under Mahmud I, he retook Tabriz and Rumiyya, then as governor of Bosnia in 1149/1736–37 'showed outstanding valour in the war'; he reached the grand vizierate and chronicles title him 'Şeyhü'l-vüzera' ¹.

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Roles: Ruler
Era: The Gunpowder Empires
Region: Anatolia
Identifiers: Wikidata
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The Colonial Era · The Gunpowder Empires Contemporaries: Ahmad ibn Hamallah al-Tishiti · Ahmad ibn Mustafa ibn al-Khawja · Sultan Ahmed III · Al-Baji, Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Saghir · al-Bulaydi Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Muhammad

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Ali Pasha, known as 'Hekimoğlu' — son of the physician — an Ottoman grand vizier ¹.

Son of the palace chief physician Nuh Efendi, born on the night of mid-Sha'ban 1110/16 February 1699, 'the most excellent of his brothers'. Under Mahmud I he governed Anatolia, Tabriz and Diyarbekir, retaking Tabriz and Rumiyya; as governor of Bosnia in 1149/1736–37 he 'showed outstanding valour in the war'. He reached the grand vizierate and chronicles title him 'Şeyhü'l-vüzera' — sheikh of the viziers ¹.

Sources

Sicill-i Osmani — Mehmed Süreyya (ed. Nuri Akbayar, transcr. Seyit Ali Kahraman) , vol. 1, 'Ali Paşa (Hekimzâde)'

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