Hadım Ali Pasha

{{Short description|Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1501–1503, 1506–1511)}}

{{About|the Ottoman grand vizier|the Ottoman governor of Egypt, Bosnia, and Diyarbekir (died 1560)|Sofu Hadım Ali Pasha}}

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| honorific-prefix = Hadım

| name = Ali

| honorific-suffix = Pasha

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| office1 = 22nd Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire

| monarch1 = Bayezid II

| term_start1 = 1506

| term_end1 = 1511

| predecessor1 = Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha

| successor1 = Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha

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| monarch2 = Bayezid II

| term_start2 = 1501

| term_end2 = 1503

| predecessor2 = Mesih Pasha

| successor2 = Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha

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| birth_place = Drozgometva, Bosnia

| death_date = July 1511

| death_place = Çubukova, between Kayseri and Sivas, Ottoman Empire

| father = Radošin, son of Vučihna, son of Ostoja

| nationality = Ottoman

| blank1 = Noble Family

| data1 = Ostoya or Ostoja

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| battles = Şahkulu Rebellion{{KIA}}

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Hadım Ali Pasha (Turkish: Hadım Ali Paşa; died July 1511), also known as Atik Ali Pasha (Turkish: Atik Ali Paşa), was an Ottoman statesman and eunuch{{cite book|last=Peirce|first=Leslie P.|author-link=Leslie P. Peirce|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L6-VRgVzRcUC|title=The Imperial Harem Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire|page=304|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1993|isbn=9780195086775}} (hadım means "eunuch" in Turkish) of Bosnian origin. He served as governor of Rumeli, and led the Ottoman army in the Ottoman–Mamluk War of 1485–1491, but was defeated at Adana in 1488. He was then named Grand Vizier from 1501 to 1503, and again from 1509 to 1511. During his latter tenure, he led the suppression of the Alevi-led Şahkulu Rebellion, but died in battle near Sivas along with the rebel leader Şahkulu himself.

Life

He was from Drozgometva village in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina.[http://www.islamansiklopedisi.info/ Islam Encyclopaedia {{in lang|tr}}]

He served as governor of Rumeli, and led the Ottoman army in the Ottoman–Mamluk War of 1485–1491, but was defeated at Adana in 1488. He was then appointed grand vizier in 1501–1503, and again in 1509–1511. During his latter tenure he led the suppression of the Alevi-led Şahkulu Rebellion, but fell in battle near Sivas along with the rebel leader Shahkulu himself in July 1511.{{Cite book| last=Finkel | first=Caroline | title=Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300–1923 | publisher=John Murray | location=London | year=2006 | isbn=978-0-7195-6112-2 | pages= 91–92, 99–101}}Prof. Yaşar Yüce-Prof. Ali Sevim: Türkiye tarihi Cilt II, AKDTYKTTK Yayınları, İstanbul, 1991 pp. 225–226

Legacy

He had two eponymous mosques built in the Fatih district of Istanbul, one being the Gazi Atik Ali Pasha Mosque (completed 1497) in the Çemberlitaş neighborhood and the other being the Vasat Atik Ali Pasha Mosque (completed 1512) in the Karagümrük neighborhood.

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