Recep Pasha (also transliterated in the past as Rajab Pasha or Ragab Pasha or Receb Pasha, or Rajab Bacha or even Rajab Basha; died 1726) was an
Ottoman statesman.
Recep Pasha became a
vizier
A vizier (; ar, وزير, wazīr; fa, وزیر, vazīr), or wazir, is a high-ranking political advisor or minister in the near east. The Abbasid caliphs gave the title ''wazir'' to a minister formerly called '' katib'' (secretary), who was ...
in September 1707 and served as the Ottoman governor of
Diyarbekir Eyalet (1707–10, 1725),
Van Eyalet (1710–11),
Sivas Eyalet
Sivas ( Latin and Greek: ''Sebastia'', ''Sebastea'', Σεβάστεια, Σεβαστή, ) is a city in central Turkey and the seat of Sivas Province.
The city, which lies at an elevation of in the broad valley of the Kızılırmak river, i ...
(1711–12, 1726),
Trabzon Eyalet
Trebizond Eyalet ( ota, ایالت طربزون, Eyālet-i Ṭrabzōn) or Trabzon Beylerbeyliği was an eyalet
Eyalets ( Ottoman Turkish: ایالت, , English: State), also known as beylerbeyliks or pashaliks, were a primary administrative ...
(1712–13, 1724–25), Sanjak of Teke (1713–14),
Sanjak of Jerusalem (1714–16),
Damascus Eyalet
ota, ایالت شام
, conventional_long_name = Damascus Eyalet
, common_name = Damascus Eyalet
, subdivision = Eyalet
, nation = the Ottoman Empire
, year_start = 1516
, year_end ...
(1716, 1718),
Aleppo Eyalet (1719–1720, 1721–24),
Egypt Eyalet (1720–21), and Tbilisi (1724).
He was either of Albanian
or Serbian/Bosnian
origin. He married
Emine Sultan, the daughter of Ottoman Sultan Mustafa II.
Governorship of Egypt
According to al-Jabarti, upon arrival in Egypt as governor, Recep Pasha was ordered by the
sultan Ahmed III to audit the accounts of his predecessor,
Dellak Ali Pasha, and then kill him, as well as plan the assassination of a local bey named Ismail Bey ibn Iwaz and his partisans.
Recep Pasha indeed proceeded to audit Dellak Ali Pasha and had him executed by decapitation, allegedly sending his skinned head to the sultan in
Constantinople
la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه
, alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth ( Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis ( ...
.
Ali Pasha's body was buried in the
City of the Dead necropolis, reportedly under the name "Ali Pasha al-Mazlum" (''Ali Pasha the Oppressed'').
Next, Recep Pasha asked a man named Mehmed Çerkes how to go about assassinating ibn Iwaz and his partisans. After hammering out a plan, which involved getting ibn Iwaz bey to a remote location and sending men to kill him there, the two executed it but failed to kill ibn Iwaz. Soon afterwards, Recep Pasha was dismissed from the governorship,
being reappointed as governor of
Aleppo.
In Aleppo
Rajab Basha had the fountain at the entrance of Khan Al-Sābūn restored.
He also had a house constructed in Baḥsitā. The house was renovated in 2006 and has become a building for the Cultural Center ever since.
The Rajab Basha family of Aleppo descends from the governor Rajab Basha.
See also
*
List of Ottoman governors of Egypt
*
List of Ottoman governors of Damascus
This is a list of rulers of Damascus from ancient times to the present.
:''General context: History of Damascus''.
Aram Damascus
* Rezon I (c. 950 BC)
*Tabrimmon
* Ben-Hadad I (c. 885 BCE–c. 865 BC)
* Hadadezer (c. 865 BC–c. 842 BC)
* Hazael ...
References
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17th-century births
1726 deaths
17th-century people from the Ottoman Empire
18th-century Ottoman governors of Egypt
Ottoman governors of Egypt
Ottoman governors of Damascus
Ottoman governors of Aleppo