The following is a list of rulers of
Gaza. During
Mamluk
Mamluk ( ar, مملوك, mamlūk (singular), , ''mamālīk'' (plural), translated as "one who is owned", meaning " slave", also transliterated as ''Mameluke'', ''mamluq'', ''mamluke'', ''mameluk'', ''mameluke'', ''mamaluke'', or ''marmeluke'') ...
and early
Ottoman rule, Gaza served as the capital of a province which at times included most of central and southern
Palestine
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or the coastal plain up to
Jaffa
Jaffa, in Hebrew Yafo ( he, יָפוֹ, ) and in Arabic Yafa ( ar, يَافَا) and also called Japho or Joppa, the southern and oldest part of Tel Aviv-Yafo, is an ancient port city in Israel. Jaffa is known for its association with the b ...
.
Ayyubids
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Nasir al-Din
Nasir al-Din ( ar, نصیر الدین or or , 'defender of the faith'), was originally a honorific title and is an Arabic masculine given name and surname. There are many variant spellings in English due to transliteration. Notable people with ...
(1244–1245)
Mamluks
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Shams el-Din al-Barli (1259-1264)
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Baybars al-Ala'i (1307–1309)
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Baktamur (1310–1311)
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Sanjar al-Jawli
Sanjar ibn Abdullah Alam al-Din Abu Sa'id al-Jawli (also spelled Sangar al-Gawli, Sanjar al-Jawali or Sinjar al-Jawili, 1255–14 January 1345) was a powerful Mamluk ''emir'' and the Governor of Gaza and much of Palestine between 1311–20 during ...
(1311–1320)
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Muhammad ibn Baktamur (1320–1329)
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Turuntay al-Jukandari (1329–1332)
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Taynal al-Ashrafi (1332–1335)
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Sanjar al-Jawli
Sanjar ibn Abdullah Alam al-Din Abu Sa'id al-Jawli (also spelled Sangar al-Gawli, Sanjar al-Jawali or Sinjar al-Jawili, 1255–14 January 1345) was a powerful Mamluk ''emir'' and the Governor of Gaza and much of Palestine between 1311–20 during ...
(1342)
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Ahmad al-Hajji (1373-1375)
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Muhammad al-Adili (1375)
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Akbugha al-Safawi (1375–1381)
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Husam ad-Din Bakish (1382)
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Aqbugha al-Tulutumari (?-1398)
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Sayf ad-Din Inal al-Ala'i (1428–1433)
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Timraz al-Mu'ayyadi (ca 1436-1437)
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Yalkhuja an-Nasiri (1445–1446)
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Sibay az-Zahiri (ca. 1482)
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Aqbay al-Ashrafi (1482–1494)
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* Qani Bak (1494–1495)[
* Aqbay al-Ashrafi (1495–1496)][
* Dawlat Bay (1501–1517)
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Ottoman
* Sharaf ad-Din Musa al-Muzaffari (1517–1524)
* Kara Şahin Mustafa (1524–1550)
*Ridwan Pasha
Riḍwān ibn Muṣṭafā ibn ʿAbd al-Muʿīn Pasha ( Turkish transliteration: ''Ridvan Pasha''; died 2 April 1585) was a 16th-century Ottoman statesman. He served terms as governor of Gaza in the early 1560s and in 1570–1573, Yemen in 1564/ ...
(1550–1565)
*Sinan Bey
Sinan (Arabic: سنان ''sinān'') is a name found in Arabic and Early Arabic, meaning ''spearhead''. The name may also be related to the Ancient Greek name Sinon. It was used as a male given name.
Etymology
The word is possibly stems from t ...
(1565–1567)
*Ridwan Pasha
Riḍwān ibn Muṣṭafā ibn ʿAbd al-Muʿīn Pasha ( Turkish transliteration: ''Ridvan Pasha''; died 2 April 1585) was a 16th-century Ottoman statesman. He served terms as governor of Gaza in the early 1560s and in 1570–1573, Yemen in 1564/ ...
(1567–1572)
*Ahmad ibn Ridwan
Ahmad ibn Ridwan ( ar, أحمد بن رضوان ) (died 1607), better known as Ahmad Pasha, was the governor of the Damascus Eyalet in the early 17th century. Before that, he was governor of the Gaza Sanjak, a subprovince of Damascus, for nearly 30 ...
(1572–1601)
* Hasan Arab Ridwan (1601–1660)
*Husayn Pasha
Ḥusayn Pasha ibn Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Riḍwān ibn Muṣṭafā ibn ʿAbd al-Muʿīn Pasha ( ar, حسين باشا بن حسن رضوان) (died 1662 or 1663) was the Ottoman governor of Gaza Sanjak, a district which extended from Jaffa and ...
(1660–1663)
* Musa Pasha (1663–1679)
* Ahmad ibn Musa Pasha (1679-1690)
* Sayed Ahmad (1708–1723)
* Salih Pasha Touqan (1723–?)
* Uthman Pasha (1760–1773)The province of Damascus, 1723-1783
Khayats, 1966. p. 256.
*Zahir al-Umar
Zahir al-Umar al-Zaydani, alternatively spelled Daher al-Omar or Dahir al-Umar ( ar, ظاهر العمر الزيداني, translit=Ẓāhir al-ʿUmar az-Zaydānī, 1689/90 – 21 or 22 August 1775) was the autonomous Arab ruler of northern Ottom ...
(1773–1774)
*Suleiman Pasha (1804–1805)
* Muhammad Abu Marraq (1805–1807)
*Muhammad Abu-Nabbut
Muhammad (Mehmet) Abu Nabbut Agha ( ar, محمد أبو نبوت) was the governor of Jaffa and Gaza in the early 19th century on behalf of the Ottoman Empire, from 1807 to 1818, as well as the governor of Thessaloniki from 1819 to 1827 during th ...
(1807–1818)
* Mustafa Bey (1818–1820)
* Abdullah Pasha (1820–1831)
* Mas'ud al-Madi (1831–1834)
* Mahmud Abd al-Hadi (1849)
* Ahmad Rifaat Bak ash-Sharkasi (ca. 1868)
See also
*History of Gaza
The known history of Gaza spans 4,000 years. Gaza was ruled, destroyed and repopulated by various dynasties, empires, and peoples. Originally a Canaanite settlement, it came under the control of the ancient Egyptians for roughly 350 years befo ...
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