Silahdar Süleyman Pasha
{{short description|19th-century governor of Damascus}}
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| term_end1=May 1816
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| successor1=Hafiz Amasyali Ali Pasha
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Silahdar Süleyman Pasha (Arabic transliteration: Sulaymān Pasha al-Siliḥdār, died 1837) was the Ottoman governor of Damascus Eyalet from February 1812 to May 1816.{{cite web|title=Syria|url=http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Syria|website=The World Statesmen|publisher=Ben Cahoon}}
Biography
Silahdar was from Hama in central Syria, but his government career was made in the Ottoman capital, Istanbul. He replaced Sulayman Pasha al-Adil as governor of Damascus and his appointment marked the permanent end of a trend whereby local rulers or non-local rulers who made their careers in Syria, such as the al-Azm family or Jazzar Pasha and his mamluk heirs in Acre, were appointed to the governorship.Douwes 2000, p. 58.
During his first days as governor, Silahdar faced a rebellion by the janissary commander of the Citadel of Damascus, Ali Agha al-Baghdadi, who refused to accept Silahdar's authority. After a siege of several days, Ali Agha surrendered, was executed and the remaining rebellious janissaries were allowed to leave the city unharmed.Douwes 2000, p. 108. In 1813, Silahdar commissioned the Kurdish Dalat cavalry commander of Hama, Mullah Isma'il, to oversee that year's tax collection tour in the province.Douwes 2000, p. 117. Silahdar was commended by the Damascene chronicler and Silahdar's contemporary, Hasan Agha al-'Abd, for successfully protecting and provisioning the Hajj caravans of 1813 and 1814 as part of his duty as amir al-hajj (commander of the Hajj caravan);Sajdi 2013, p. 100. Al-'Abd accompanied Silahdar during the Hajj of 1813.Sajdi 2013, p. 98.
Silahdar was replaced by Hafiz Amasyali Ali Pasha in May 1816. Silahdar died in 1837.{{cite book|last1=Atasoy|first1=M. Celâlettin|title=Kandilli'de tarih|date=1982|publisher=Türkiye Turing ve Otomobil Kurumu|page=78|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IM0qAAAAMAAJ&q=Silahdar+Sam}}
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Bibliography
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- {{cite book|first=Dick|last=Douwes|title=The Ottomans in Syria: a history of justice and oppression|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zYptAAAAMAAJ&q=Hasya|publisher=I.B. Tauris|year=2000|isbn=1860640311}}
- {{cite book|last1=Sajdi|first1=Dana|title=The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant|date=2013|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=9780804788281|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bawjAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA100}}
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Category:19th-century people from the Ottoman Empire
Category:Ottoman governors of Damascus
Category:People from the Ottoman Empire of Abkhazian descent