Koca Ragıp Pasha

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Koca Mehmet Ragıp Pascha (* 1698 in Istanbul ; † 1763 ibid) was an Ottoman statesman. He was Governor of Egypt from 1744 to 1748 and Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1757 to 1763 . He was also known as a poet and scholar. His nickname Koca means big in Turkish .

Life

Mehmet Ragıp was born in 1698 as the son of the Ottoman administrative officer Şevki Mustafa. After his training he worked as a civil servant in various positions in the Reich. He was employed in the Ottoman financial administration Defter and treasurer of Eyâlet Baghdad (now Iraq ). He was also part of the Ottoman legation to the Treaty of Belgrade in 1739. A year later he became Reis ül-Küttab and was thus also responsible for the foreign policy of the empire with the rank of minister of state. From 1744 he served as governor of Eyâlet Egypt for four years until he was forced to resign by local troops.

Ragıp Pasha Library, Istanbul

On January 12, 1757 he was by Sultan Osman III. appointed grand vizier. As Osman III. died ten months later, Mehmet Ragıp Pasha also served under the new Sultan Mustafa III. further as Grand Vizier. He married Saliha Sultan, a sister of Sultan Ahmed III. and thus received the honorary title damad , which was reserved for men who married into the sultan's family.

Ragip's tenure fell during the first decline of the Ottoman Empire. Even so, he enacted reforms of the Ottoman administration and the treasury. So for the first time he managed to generate more income than expenditure. In addition, Koca Ragıp Pasha was a supporter of peace policy. His term of office fell during the seven-year war in Europe. Despite the danger of war, he was able to keep the Ottoman Empire out of conflict.

Koca Ragıp Pascha died in office in 1763. After his death, Mustafa III wrote. an elegy ( Turkish ağıt ) in which he expressed his grief over the death of his good friend.

Koca Ragıp Pascha was considered a scholar who dealt intensively with European culture and translated works by Hugo Grotius , Voltaire and Isaac Newton . He also wrote numerous poems and campaigned for the promotion of culture and art. He himself promoted the Ottoman poet Haşmet . With the books he had collected, he founded the Ragıp Pasha Library and built a library building in the Istanbul district of Lâleli , in whose garden he was buried.

Works

  • Divan (collection of poems)
  • Münşaat
  • Fethiye ve Fetihname-i Belgrade
  • Mecmua-i Ragıp Paşa
  • Tahkik ve Tevfik
  • Sefinetü'r-Ragıp
  • Matlau's-Sa'deyn

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Koca Ragıp Paşa , biyografya.com, accessed on April 28, 2020
  2. ^ 'Abd al-Rahman Jabarti, Thomas Philipp, Moshe Perlmann: Abd Al-Rahmann Al-Jabarti's History of Egypt . Volume 1, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, p. 248
  3. ^ Mehmet Süreyya: Sicill-i Osmanî . Türkiye Kültür Bakanlığı and Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı, Istanbul 1996
  4. ↑ Yılmaz Öztuna: Büyük Osmanlı Tarihi: Osmanlı Devleti'nin siyasî, medenî, kältür, teşkilât ve san'at tarihi . Volume 10, Ötüken Neşriyat AS, Istanbul 1994, ISBN 975-437-141-5 , pp. 412-416
  5. ^ 'Abd al-Rahman Jabarti, Thomas Philipp, Moshe Perlmann (1994), p. 250f.
  6. ↑ Gabor Aboston-Bruce Masters: Ottoman Encyclopaedia , Facts on File Inc., ISBN 978-0-8160-6259-1 , page 411
  7. ^ Yaşar Yüce, Ali Sevim: Türkiye tarihi . Volume III, AKDTYKTTK Yayınları, Istanbul 1991, p. 35
  8. ↑ Koca Rağıp Paşa Hayatı ve Edebi Kişiliği , Edebiyat ve Sanat Akademisi, accessed on April 29, 2020
predecessor Office successor
Ivaz Mehmed Pasha Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
January 12, 1757 - April 8, 1763 		Hekimoğlu Ali Pasha
personal data
SURNAME Koca Mehmet Ragıp Pasha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ş
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire and Provincial Governor
DATE OF BIRTH 1698
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH 1763