Alaeddin Pasha ( ota, علاء الدين پاشا) was the first Ottoman grand vizier. His father's name was Kemaleddin ( ar, كمال الدين, lit=perfection of the faith), and thus he was usually called ''Hacı Kemaleddin oğlu Alaeddin Pasha'' or ''Alaeddin bin Hacı Kemaleddin, ''meaning "son of Hacı Kemaleddin" He was probably from the town of Cendere, from where the famous

Çandarlı family The Çandarlı family ( ota, چاندارلی عائله سی; tr, Çandarlı ailesi) was a prominent Turkish political family which provided the Ottoman Empire with five grand viziers during the 14th and 15th centuries. At the time, it was the ...

also originated. He was a faqih (expert in Islamic law). He was appointed as the vizier during the last years of

Osman I Osman I or Osman Ghazi ( ota, عثمان غازى, translit= ʿOsmān Ġāzī; tr, I. Osman or ''Osman Gazi''; died 1323/4), sometimes transliterated archaically as Othman, was the founder of the Ottoman Empire (first known as the Ottoman Bey ...

's reign (probably in 1320). He continued during Orhan's Bey's reign. Since there was only one

vizier A vizier (; ar, وزير, wazīr; fa, وزیر, vazīr), or wazir, is a high-ranking political advisor or minister in the near east. The Abbasid caliphs gave the title ''wazir'' to a minister formerly called '' katib'' (secretary), who was ...

in the

divan A divan or diwan ( fa, دیوان, ''dīvān''; from Sumerian ''dub'', clay tablet) was a high government ministry in various Islamic states, or its chief official (see ''dewan''). Etymology The word, recorded in English since 1586, meanin ...

during the early years of the Ottoman beylik, his title was not actually grand vizier, but his post was equivalent to the post of the later grand viziers. Because of this, he is known as the first grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire. He founded the first standing army for the Ottoman sultan, which would later on become the Janissaries. The new corps wore white caps in contrast to earlier red-cap Turkmen soldiers. Alaeddin's service as grand vizier ended before 1333.Halil İnalcık:Kuruluş Dönemi OsmanlI Sultanları, İstanbul, ISAM, p.24, 71-72 Some sources claim that Alaeddin Pasha was Orhan's brother.Lord Kinross:Ottoman centuries (translated by Meral Gaspıralı), İstanbul, Altın Kitaplar, p.26 Although Orhan had a brother named

Alaeddin Pasha Alaeddin Pasha, or Alaeddin Bey (''Alâeddin Paşa''; Söğüt, – Bursa, 1331), was the brother of Orhan I, who succeeded their father, Osman I, in the leadership of the Ottoman Empire. His mother was a Turkish woman named Rabia Bala Hatun. It ...

, brother Alaeddin and vizier Alaeddin are usually not believed to be the same person.

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