Hain Ahmed Pasha ( Ahmed Pasha 'the Traitor'; died 1524), was an Ottoman governor (

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) and a statesman, who became the Ottoman

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Egypt Eyalet The Eyalet of Egypt (, ) operated as an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire from 1517 to 1867. It originated as a result of the conquest of Mamluk Egypt by the Ottomans in 1517, following the Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–17) and the a ...

in 1523.

Early life

Ahmed Pasha was of

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origin. He was educated in the Enderun palace school.

Declaring himself the sultan of Egypt

Hain Ahmed Pasha wanted to become the

grand vizier Grand vizier ( fa, وزيرِ اعظم, vazîr-i aʾzam; ota, صدر اعظم, sadr-ı aʾzam; tr, sadrazam) was the title of the effective head of government of many sovereign states in the Islamic world. The office of Grand Vizier was first ...

, to become the grand vizier, Hain Ahmed Pasha tried to persuade

Suleiman the Magnificent Suleiman I ( ota, سليمان اول, Süleyman-ı Evvel; tr, I. Süleyman; 6 November 14946 September 1566), commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the West and Suleiman the Lawgiver ( ota, قانونى سلطان سليمان, Ḳ� ...

to dismiss

Piri Mehmed Pasha Piri Mehmed Pasha (1465 – 1532 Silivri) was an Ottoman Turk statesman, and grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1518 to 1523.İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971, p. 15. (Turkish) Biogra ...

, using the old age of Piri Mehmed Pasha as an excuse, and ultimately succeeded. his rival

Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha ("Ibrahim Pasha of Parga"; c. 1495 – 15 March 1536), also known as Frenk Ibrahim Pasha ("the Westerner"), Makbul Ibrahim Pasha ("the Favorite"), which later changed to Maktul Ibrahim Pasha ("the Executed") after his ex ...

had been appointed (June 1523) instead as grand vizier, so Hain Ahmed Pasha offered Suleiman I. to make him the governor of

, which got accepted by Suleiman I. When Hain Ahmed Pasha went to Egypt, he declared himself the sultan of Egypt, independent from the Ottoman Empire. He struck coins with his own face and name in order to legitimize his power and captured

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and the local Ottoman garrisons in January 1524.Süreyya, Bey Mehmet, Nuri Akbayar, and Seyit Ali. Kahraman. Sicill-i Osmanî. Beşiktaş, İstanbul: Kültür Bakanlığı Ile Türkiye Ekonomik Ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı'nın Ortak Yayınıdır, 1890. Print.

Death

After surviving an assassination attempt in his bath by two emirs that he had previously sacked, he fled

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. Ottoman authorities finally captured him and executed him by

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.Yayın Kurulu "Ahmet Paşa (Hain)", (1999), ''Yaşamları ve Yapıtlarıyla Osmanlılar Ansiklopedisi'', İstanbul:Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat Yayıncılık A.Ş. volume 2, p.146 His rebellion occasioned a short period of instability in the nascent

. After his death, his rival Pargalı İbrahim Pasha visited Egypt and reformed the provincial military and civil administration.

Family

Ahmed married Ilaldi Sultan, a daughter of Sultan

Bayezid II Bayezid II ( ota, بايزيد ثانى, Bāyezīd-i s̱ānī, 3 December 1447 – 26 May 1512, Turkish: ''II. Bayezid'') was the eldest son and successor of Mehmed II, ruling as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1481 to 1512. During his reign, ...

. They had at least a son and a daughter:Gökbilgin, M. Tayyib (1952). XV-XVI. asırlarda Edirne ve Paşa Livası: vakıflar, mulkler, mukataalar . Üçler Basımevi. p. 380. * Sultanzade ''Fülan'' Bey. He married his cousin Hanzade Hanımsultan, the daughter of Selçuk Sultan (daughter of Bayezid II). * Şahzade Aynişah Hanımsultan. She married Abdüsselâm Çelebi.

References

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Early life

Declaring himself the sultan of Egypt

Death

Family

See also

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