Silahdar Süleyman Pasha

Silahdar Süleyman Pasha
Wali of Damascus
In office
June 1783 – 1784
Monarch Mahmud II
Preceded by Sulayman Pasha al-Adil
Succeeded by Hafiz Amasyali Ali Pasha
Personal details
Born Hama
Died 1837
Nationality Ottoman

Silahdar Süleyman Pasha (Arabic transliteration: Sulaymān Pasha al-Siliḥdār, died 1837) was the Ottoman governor of Damascus Eyalet from February 1812 to May 1816.[1]

Biography

Silahdar was from Hama in central Syria, but his government career was made in the Ottoman capital, Istanbul. He replaced Sulayman Pasha al-Adil as governor of Damascus and his appointment marked the permanent end of a trend whereby local rulers or non-local rulers who made their careers in Syria, such as the al-Azm family or Jazzar Pasha and his mamluk heirs in Acre, were appointed to the governorship.[2]

During his first days as governor, Silahdar faced a rebellion by the jannisary commander of the Citadel of Damascus, Ali Agha al-Baghdadi, who refused to accept Silahdar's authority. After a siege of several days, Ali Agha surrendered, was executed and the remaining rebellious jannisaries were allowed to leave the city unharmed.[3] In 1813, Silahdar commissioned the Kurdish Dalat cavalry commander of Hama, Mullah Isma'il, to oversee that year's tax collection tour in the province.[4] Silahdar was commended by the Damascene chronicler and Silahdar's contemporary, Hasan Agha al-'Abd, for successfully protecting and provisioning the Hajj caravans of 1813 and 1814 as part of his duty as amir al-hajj (commander of the Hajj caravan);[5] Al-'Abd accompanied Silahdar during the Hajj of 1813.[6]

Silahdar was replaced by Hafiz Amasyali Ali Pasha in May 1816.[1] Silahdar died in 1837.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 "Syria". The World Statesmen. Ben Cahoon.
  2. ↑ Douwes 2000, p. 58.
  3. ↑ Douwes 2000, p. 108.
  4. ↑ Douwes 2000, p. 117.
  5. ↑ Sajdi 2013, p. 100.
  6. ↑ Sajdi 2013, p. 98.
  7. ↑ Atasoy, M. Celâlettin (1982). Kandilli'de tarih. Türkiye Turing ve Otomobil Kurumu. p. 78.

Bibliography

  • Douwes, Dick (2000). The Ottomans in Syria: a history of justice and oppression. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 1860640311.
  • Sajdi, Dana (2013). The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804788281.
Preceded by
Sulayman Pasha al-Adil		 Wali of Damascus
1812–1816		 Succeeded by
Hafiz Amasyali Ali Pasha
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