Ibşir Mustafa Pasha () was an Ottoman statesman of Abkhazian origin, nephew of the governor and rebel Abaza Mehmed Pasha, and prominent Celali rebel. He was

grand vizier Grand vizier (; ; ) was the title of the effective head of government of many sovereign states in the Islamic world. It was first held by officials in the later Abbasid Caliphate. It was then held in the Ottoman Empire, the Mughal Empire, the Soko ...

of the

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from 28 October 1654 to 11 May 1655. He was also the Ottoman governor of

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(province) in 1649. He was a briefly ''

damat Damat (, from {{langx, fa, {{nq, داماد (dâmâd) "bridegroom") was an official Ottoman title describing men that entered the imperial House of Osman by means of marriage, literally becoming the bridegroom to the Ottoman sultan and the dyn ...

'' ("bridegroom") to the

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, as he married the Ottoman princess Ayşe Sultan. As governor of

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he was defeated by Mulhim ibn Yunus, the

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emir of the

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, in a battle at the Qarnana valley in November 1650.

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