Hadim Ibrahim Pasha ( tr, Hadım Ibrahim Paşa, meaning in English "Ibrahim Pasha the Eunuch") (1473 – 1562) Necipoĝlu (2005), p.391 was a 16th-century Ottoman statesman.

Life

Born in the

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, he became Chief White Eunuch of the

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under Sultan

Suleyman the Magnificent Suleiman I ( ota, سليمان اول, Süleyman-ı Evvel; tr, I. Süleyman; 6 November 14946 September 1566), commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the West and Suleiman the Lawgiver ( ota, قانونى سلطان سليمان, Ḳ� ...

. He was appointed Governor of

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, and in 1544 was nominated fourth

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. In 1548–9, during the Second campaign of the Ottoman-Safavid War, he got the position of lieutenant Governor of

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, reaching the rank of third Vizier.Necipoĝlu (2005), p.392 Appointed second Vizier in 1553, after the assassination of the crown prince

Şehzade Mustafa Şehzade Mustafa (Ottoman Turkish: شهزاده مصطفى; 6 August 1515 – 6 October 1553) was an Ottoman prince and the son of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his consort Mahidevran Sultan. He was the prince-governor of Manisa from 15 ...

on behalf of the Sultan, he was sent by Suleyman - then stationing in Aleppo - to Bursa to strangle the son of Mustafa. Appointed again lieutenant Governor of the Capital from 1553 to 1555, after the comeback of the Sultan to Istanbul he was forced to retire because of his old age. Ibrahim Pasha died in 1562. He followed a modest lifestyle and was among the few Court Eunuchs who enjoined unanimously a high reputation. In 1555, he married Fatma Sultan, a daughter of Sultan

Selim I Selim I ( ota, سليم الأول; tr, I. Selim; 10 October 1470 – 22 September 1520), known as Selim the Grim or Selim the Resolute ( tr, links=no, Yavuz Sultan Selim), was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520. Despite las ...

and full-sister of Sultan Süleyman I, but she died shortly after, in 1556.

Legacy

In 1551 he commissioned Court Architect ( tr, Mimar)

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to erect his funerary mosque in Istanbul, in the neighborhood of the Gate of Silivri ( tr, Silivrikapı). On January 21, 1562, he established an endowment ( tr, Waqf), which was entitled to administer several institutions in the western part of Istanbul. These were: his Friday mosque with an elementary school in the Silivrikapı neighborhood ; another school near Silivrikapı; a Byzantine church which he had converted into a mosque, with an attached

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and an elementary school (also erected by Sinan) near the Isakapı Gate;Müller-Wiener (1977), p. 118. another elementary school near the

Column of Arcadius The column of Arcadius ( tr, Arkadyos Sütunu or ''Avrat Taşı'') was a Roman triumphal column in the forum of Arcadius in Constantinople built in the early 5th century AD. The marble column was historiated with a spiralling frieze of reliefs on ...

and a water well for travellers outside

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Gate. The endowment was to be financed through villages donated by the Sultan, fields, shops and mills in Rumelia, and buildings in

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and Istanbul. The Waqf was administered by the Chief white eunuch of Topkapi. The location of these establishments in sparsely settled neighborhoods along

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, where the population was predominantly Christian, shows his desire of pursuing a policy of islamization of the city.

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