Mehmed Emin Rauf Pasha (1780–1860) was an Ottoman industrialist and statesman, who was

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire The grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire ( or ''Sadr-ı Azam'' (''Sadrazam''); Ottoman Turkish language, Ottoman Turkish: or ) was the ''de facto'' prime minister of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, sultan in the Ottoman Empire, with the absolute p ...

twice under

Mahmud II Mahmud II (, ; 20 July 1785 – 1 July 1839) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1808 until his death in 1839. Often described as the "Peter the Great of Turkey", Mahmud instituted extensive administrative, military, and fiscal reforms ...

(reign 1808–1839) and three times under Abdülmecit I (reign 1839–1861) during the

Tanzimat The (, , lit. 'Reorganization') was a period of liberal reforms in the Ottoman Empire that began with the Edict of Gülhane of 1839 and ended with the First Constitutional Era in 1876. Driven by reformist statesmen such as Mustafa Reşid Pash ...

period. According to Shaw and Shaw, Mehmed Emin Rauf Pasha and his predecessor, Mustafa Reşit Pasha, "acted mainly as mediators" for Mahmud II, "attempting to balance conflicting interests while participating in the factional activities and disputes endemic in Ottoman governmental life."

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*Shaw, S. J. and Shaw, E. Z. (1997). History of the Ottoman Empire, Volume 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1780 births 1859 deaths Pashas 19th-century grand viziers of the Ottoman Empire Ottoman governors of Damascus Turks from the Ottoman Empire Ottoman people of the Egyptian–Ottoman War (1839–1841) {{Ottoman-bio-stub