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Koca Ragıp Pasha

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1757 to 1763

Koca Ragıp Pasha

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1757 to 1763

FieldValue
honorific-prefixKoca Damat
nameMehmet Ragıp
honorific-suffixPasha
imageIssue of Koca Ragıp Paşa, wãli (governor) of Egypt, 1744-1748. Misr (Cairo) mint. Dies dated AH 1143 (AD 1730).jpg
captionCoin used by Koca Ragıp Pasha as governor of Egypt. Minted in Cairo, dated 1730. Arabic inscriptions on both sides. **Obv**: "Sultan of the two lands and Khaqan of the two seas, the Sultan, Raghib, son of the Sultan". **Rev**: "Struck Misr [Cairo] in 1143 may his victory be glorious"
office1Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
monarch1Osman III
Mustafa III
term_start112 January 1757
term_end18 April 1763
predecessor1Köse Bahir Mustafa Pasha
successor1Tevkii Hamza Hamid Pasha
office2Ottoman Governor of Egypt
term_start21744
term_end21748
predecessor2Yedekçi Mehmet Pasha
successor2Yeğen Ali Pasha
birth_date1698
birth_placeConstantinople, Ottoman Empire
death_date
death_placeConstantinople, Ottoman Empire
nationalityTurkish
blank1Origins
spouse
professionCivil servant
allegiance

| honorific-prefix = Koca Damat | honorific-suffix = Pasha Mustafa III

Koca Damat Mehmet Ragıp Pasha (1698–1763) was an Ottoman statesman who served as a civil servant before 1744 as the provincial governor of Egypt from 1744 to 1748 and Grand Vizier from 1757 to 1763. He was also known as a poet. His epithet Koca means "great" or "giant" in Turkish.

Early years

His father was Şevki Mustafa, a bureaucrat in the Ottoman Empire. After completing his education, Mehmet Ragıp worked in various parts of the empire as a civil servant. He served as the chief treasurer in Baghdad (then a part of the Ottoman Empire). He was a member of Ottoman representatives in the Treaty of Belgrade in 1739. He was promoted to the post of reis ül-küttab (equivalent to a modern foreign minister) in 1740. He was the governor of Ottoman Egypt from 1744 to 1748, when he was forced to step down by local troops.

As Grand Vizier

Ragıp Paşa Library, Istanbul

He was appointed as Grand Vizier on 12 January 1757 by the sultan Osman III. When Osman III died ten months later, Mehmet Ragıp Pasha continued under the new sultan Mustafa III with whom he had very good relations. He married Saliha, the sultan's sister, and gained the title damat ().

Ragıp's term was during an Ottoman decline. He nevertheless enacted reforms to Ottoman administration and treasury. For the first time Ottoman revenues exceed expenditures. He was an adherent of peace policy. His term in the office almost coincides with the Seven Years' War in Europe (1756-1763). Despite the danger of war, he was able to keep the Ottoman Empire out of conflict. Upon his death, Mustafa III wrote an elegy () expressing his sorrow for his good friend.

References

References

  1. (1994). "Abd Al-Rahmann Al-Jabarti's History of Egypt". Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart.
  2. Mehmet Süreyya. (1996). "Sicill-i Osmanî". Türkiye Kültür Bakanlığı and Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı.
  3. Yılmaz Öztuna. (1994). "Büyük Osmanlı Tarihi: Osmanlı Devleti'nin siyasî, medenî, kültür, teşkilât ve san'at tarihi". Ötüken Neşriyat A.S..
  4. (1994). "Abd Al-Rahmann Al-Jabarti's History of Egypt". Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart.
  5. [https://www.biyografya.com/biyografi/7430 Bio page {{LL. tr]
  6. Gabor Aboston-Bruce Masters: ''Ottoman Encyclopaedia'', Facts on File Inc, {{ISBN. 978-0-8160-6259-1, p411
  7. Prof. Yaşar Yüce-Prof. Ali Sevim: ''Türkiye tarihi Cilt III'', AKDTYKTTK Yayınları, İstanbul, 1991 p 35
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