Mehmed Pasha was educated in the Enderun palace school.[1][6]
Governorships
In July 1650, Mehmed Pasha became a vizier and was appointed the governor ofDamascus Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire for the first time.[6] On September 9, 1652, he was appointed the governor ofEgypt Eyalet, a post he held until May 1656.[6] One month after leaving the post, in June 1656, he was appointed the governor of Damascus a second time, but only held the post for three months, being dismissed in September.[6] That fall, in October or November 1656, he was made the governor of Baghdad Eyalet.[6] In late summer 1659, he became the governor ofAleppo Eyalet, but was dismissed in June 1661 by sultanMehmed IV for minting too much coinage and thus causing inflation.[1][6]
While governor of Egypt, he had a mosque built in the vicinity.[1][7] He was known by the local Egyptians as Abu'l-Nur, or "the father of light," for restoring buildings and whitewashing them.[6][8]
Also while governor of Baghdad, Mehmed Pasha sequenced works of diwan poetry.[6]
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