Mahmud Pasha (governor)

{{Short description|Ottoman statesman from Bosnia}}

{{Other people|Mahmud Pasha|Mahmud Pasha (disambiguation){{!}}Mahmud Pasha}}

Mahmud Pasha (died 1567) was an Ottoman statesman from Bosnia{{Cite journal|last=Blackburn|first=J. Richard|date=1979|title=The Collapse of Ottoman Authority in Yemen, 968/1560-976/1568|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1569922|journal=Die Welt des Islams|volume=19|issue=1/4|pages=119–176|doi=10.2307/1569922|jstor=1569922}}{{Rp|123}} who served as the Ottoman governor of Yemen Eyalet from 1561 to 1565 until being deposed, and of Egypt Eyalet from 1566 until his assassination by gunfire in 1567.{{cite book|author=Jane Hathaway|title=A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L-lPC7DgepEC&pg=PA219|year=2003|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-0-7914-8610-8|page=219}}

He was described as an "unscrupulous," corrupt, but wealthy official with "the riches of the al-Nazaris in his possession."{{cite book|title=Die Welt des Islams|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UQ8sAAAAIAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Brill|pages=130, 131, 144}} He reportedly disliked his successor for the governorship of Yemen, Ridwan Pasha, and purposefully made his job harder with actions he took just before his removal from office.{{cite book|author=Jane Hathaway|title=A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L-lPC7DgepEC&pg=PA219|year=2003|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-0-7914-8610-8|page=83}}

As the governor of Egypt, Mahmud Pasha had the Al-Mahmoudia Mosque, which still stands today, built in Cairo.