Mehmet Şerif Pasha ( ota, محمد شريف پاشا ''Mehmet Şerif Paşa''; ) was an Ottoman civil servant who served as Vali of

Jeddah Eyalet , common_name = Habesh Eyalet , subdivision = Eyalet , nation = the Ottoman Empire , year_start = 1554 , year_end = 1872 , life_span = , date_start = ...

and Shaykh al-Haram of

Mecca Mecca (; officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah ()) is a city and administrative center of the Mecca Province of Saudi Arabia, and the holiest city in Islam. It is inland from Jeddah on the Red Sea, in a narrow ...

from 1845 to 1848. In 1251 AH (1835/1836) he was promoted to ''rutbe-saniye'' (second grade civil rank) and appointed Mudir (chief treasurer) of the

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. On 20 Ramazan 1257 AH (c. 5 November 1841) he was promoted to Shaykh al-Haram (''şeyhülharem'') there with the rank of ''

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''. In 1845 following the death of

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he was appointed Vali of Jeddah and Shaykh al-Haram at Mecca (a position often held alongside the governorship) . He was dismissed in Şevval 1264 AH (August/September 1848). In Ramazan 1267 AH (July 1851) he was appointed Shaykh al-Haram in Medina a second time. He set off from Istanbul but did not reach Medina. He died at

Yanbu Yanbu ( ar, ينبع, lit=Spring, translit=Yanbu'), also known simply as Yambu or Yenbo, is a city in the Al Madinah Province of western Saudi Arabia. It is approximately 300 kilometers northwest of Jeddah (at ). The population is 222,360 (2 ...

in Muharrem 1268 AH (October/November 1851), around 80 years of age, and was buried there.

References

* * * * * *{{cite book, author=‘Ārif Aḥmad ‘Abd al-Ghanī, title=Tārīkh umarā' al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah, script-title=ar:تاريخ أمراء المدينة المنورة, publisher=Dār Kanān, year=1996, page=414, language=ar 1771 births 1851 deaths Civil servants from the Ottoman Empire