Seyyid Abdullah Pasha

Seyyid Abdullah Pasha (also known as Boynueğri Seyyid Abdullah Pasha "Seyyid Abdullah Pasha the Crooked-neck"; died March 1761, Aleppo) was an Ottoman statesman who served as grand vizier from 1747 to 1750. He also served as the Ottoman governor of Cyprus (1745–46, again in 1746–47), Rakka (1746), Konya (1750), Bosnia (1750–51), Egypt (1751–52), Diyarbekir (1752–60), and Aleppo (1760).[1][2]

For other people named Abdullah Pasha, see Abdullah Pasha (disambiguation).
In this Ottoman Turkish style name, the given name is Seyyid, the title is Pasha, and there is no family name.

Abdullah Pasha was born in Kirkuk, the son of Blond Seyyid Hasan Aga, who served as grand sheyhulislam before him. He attended the Enderun palace school as a youth and became a vizier in December 1745.[1]

He died in office as governor of Aleppo in March 1760.[1]

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References
  1. 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. 80
  2. 'Abd al-Rahman Jabarti; Thomas Philipp; Moshe Perlmann (1994). Abd Al-Rahmann Al-Jabarti's History of Egypt. Vol. 1. Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart. p. 307.


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