At a glance
- Roles
- Ruler · military
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Anatolia
- Identifiers
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Life in time
Summary
Koca Davud Pasha, Ottoman grand vizier for fifteen years under Bayezid II, whose mosque and hospital still stand in Istanbul; died 1498.
From the Conqueror's page to the vizierate
The chronicle anecdote al-Salabi relays makes him first a page of Mehmed II at Edirne who struck the qadi come to stop his misconduct. Mehmed ordered him executed for dishonouring the law's deputy and refused the viziers' intercession — until Molla Muhyi al-Din reasoned that the qadi, by leaving his bench in anger, had forfeited the judicial rank at the moment of the blow 1.
"My rectitude came only from his beating"
When the page was brought to kiss the sultan's hand in thanks for the pardon, Mehmed himself beat him so hard he lay ill four months; later he rose to be Bayezid's vizier, saying "this rectitude of mine came only from his beating" — an anecdote al-Salabi relays as historical literature on the Conqueror's justice 1.
Connections
- Related to
- بايزيد الثاني
People and things also explored
Selim I's accession, 918/1512· The Lepanto victory over Venice (1499-1500)· Prince Ahmad, son of Bayezid II· Pope Alexander VI· Pope Innocent VIII· Prince Cem (Jem Sultan)· السلطان محمد الفاتح· السلطان الأشرف قايتباي
Sources
- al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 146-147
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Koca Davud Pasha”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/koca-davud-pasha/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.