Silahdar Süleyman Pasha
Silahdar Süleyman Pasha | |
|---|---|
| Wali of Damascus | |
| In office February 1812 – May 1816 | |
| 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
[edit]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 janissary 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 janissaries 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
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- 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.