Belgradî Raşid Pasha

Belgradî Raşid Pascha (* before 1852 probably in Belgrade , † 1882 or 1883 in Istanbul ) was an Ottoman chronicler and tax officer.

Life

Belgradî Raşid's father was Mustafa Bey, Alaybeği (cavalry colonel, commander of the feudal riding, the feudal bearer committed to military success) in the province of Semendire ( Smederevo ) and a member of the respected Bosnian family Za'imzâde from Belgrade. Raşid lived in the family home in Belgrade, where an extensive library was available to him. He was employed in the provincial financial administration until the governor Mehmed Hürsîd Pascha († 1876) appointed him to Bosnia in 1852. In 1858 he returned to Belgrade and was sent to Istanbul in 1860 to the Reform Conference ( Meclis-i Tanzimat ) as a representative of Bosnia. In this Bosnian and Turkish drafted treaty, the dealings of the Ottoman authorities with the Bosnian, especially the Christian, population was regulated. He returned to Bosnia via Belgrade in 1862. Under Ahmed Cevdet Pascha († 1895) he was entrusted with the production of maps and inspection tasks. In 1868 he returned to Istanbul and for some time received similar tasks in Thessaly as in Bosnia, where he also received the rank of pasha . When he returned to Istanbul, he died there in 1882 or 1883 (1299 of the Islamic calendar ).

plant

• Tarih-i Vak'a-i Hayretnümâ-i Belgrade ve Sırbistân (“Chronicle of the Events around Belgrade and Serbia”), a two-volume work, the only known by an Ottoman author, which deals exclusively with the Serbian question. In the first volume, Raşid notes that he wrote three sections, this third part has not yet been found. In the first section the author deals with Serbia in the period from 1802 to 1849, in the second with the period from 1848 to 1861. The style of the work is the question-and-answer game of two imaginary ones, which occurs again and again in classical oriental literature Interlocutor, here the brothers' Âqil and Nâqil. Realizing that they have no future in Belgrade, Serbia, they emigrate to Cairo at different times , where they recapitulate the events of the above-mentioned period (the rule of the Obrenoviće and Karadjordjeviće ). Both in the first and in the second part important treaties between the Serbs and Ottomans are quoted verbatim, in the second part especially the privileges of the local authorities. As an Ottoman, Raşid has a critical attitude towards the Serbian independence aspirations, also for financial reasons, e.g. B. because of the fiefdoms (çiftlik) for the feudal riding ( sipahis ).
• Tarihçe-i Ibretnümâ , addendum to the above work written between 1871 and 1872. The retreat of the Ottoman troops from Serbia in the years 1866–67 is described here. Two treaties are cited in it, firstly the transfer of the Belgrade fortress to the Serbs and the confirmation of the title of governor for Mihail Bey 1866-67, secondly a sultan's order ( İrade ) from Suleyman I from 1527 regarding the conduct of the Ottoman army.

See also

• List of Ottoman chroniclers
• List of Ottoman titles

literature

• Selim Aslantaş: Belġradī Rāşid , June 2006. In: C.Kafadar / H.Karateke / C.Fleischer: Historians of the Ottoman Empire. Harvard University. Center for Middle Eastern Studies, ISBN 9780-9762-7270-0 , pp. 97-99. [1]
• Franz Babinger : The historians of the Ottomans and their works. Leipzig 1927.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ahmed Cevdet: Maruzat. ed. Y. Halaçoglu, Istanbul 1980, p. a. Ahmed Cevdet Pasha .
2. ↑ Ahmed Cevdet: Tezakir. ed. C. Baysun, Ankara 1991, p. a. Ahmed Cevdet Pasha .