Monarch Suleiman I Preceded by Divane Husrev Pasha Nationality Ottoman Role Ottoman statesman | Preceded by Lutfi Pasha Preceded by Guzelce Kasim Pasha Name Hadim Pasha Succeeded by Rustem Pasha | |
Religion Christian, converted to Islam Died September 1547, Malkara, Turkey | ||
Hadim Suleiman Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: خادم سلیمان پاشا; Turkish: Hadim Suleyman Pasa; c. 1467 – September 1547) was an Ottoman statesman and military commander. He was the (viceroy) of Ottoman Egypt in 1525–1535 and 1537–1538, and Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire between 1541 and 1544. He was a Hungarian eunuch, his epithet hadim meaning "eunuch" in Turkish.
As governor of Egypt, he was ordered by the sultan on an expedition to the Indian Ocean, where he led the capture of Aden and the Siege of Diu in 1538. Suleiman Pasha was a benefactor of his long-serving successor for Egyptian governorship, Davud Pasha (served 1538–1549), who he championed for the role to spite his rival and colleague, Rustem Pasha.
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