Musa Agha al-Hasi was an
Ottoman commander of
Arab
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irregulars in the
Galilee
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under governors
Sulayman Pasha al-Adil
Sulayman Pasha al-Adil (c. 1760s – August 1819; given name also spelled ''Suleiman'' or ''Sulaiman'') was the Ottoman governor of Sidon Eyalet between 1805 and 1819, ruling from his Acre headquarters. He also simultaneously served as governor o ...
and
Abdullah Pasha.
Biography
Musa Agha came from
Faiyum in
Upper Egypt
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In ancient ...
.
[Macalister and Masterman, 1906, pp]
222
223. He hailed from the
Bedouin
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Hanadi tribe.
[Schölch, 1993, p. 199.] When the Ottoman commander
Jezzar Pasha stayed in Egypt in the late 18th century, he developed a close association with the Ainawiyeh tribe of the
Damanhur
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region near the
Nile Delta
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. On Jezzar's return to Palestine to end the autonomous rule of
Zahir al-Umar and his sons on behalf of the
Sublime Porte, he took with him a contingent of Ainawiyeh tribesmen and gave them the honorary name of Arab al-Hawwara'', which was meant to associate them with the well-known, but unrelated, Upper Egyptian tribe, who were "distinguished ... in bravery, horsemanship and equipments", according to Macalister and Masterman.
Following his death in 1804, Jezzar, who had become the
Acre
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* Imperial, Missouri
* Imp ...
-based governor of
Sidon Eyalet
ota, ایالت صیدا
, common_name = Eyalet of Sidon
, subdivision = Eyalet
, nation = the Ottoman Empire
, year_start = 1660
, year_end = 1864
, date_start =
, date_end =
, eve ...
, was succeeded by
Suleiman Pasha al-Adil.
In 1811, Musa moved to
Gaza in
Palestine
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. Musa sought to enjoy the favor Suleiman and his predecessor gave to the Hawwara tribesmen and requested military service. Suleiman made him a commander of the Hawwara horsemen and his successor
Abdullah Pasha promoted Musa to be in charge of an even larger Hawwara contingent.
Along with his co-commander, Ali Abu Zayd Agha, Musa was in charge of 400 horsemen.
[Thackston, 1988, p]
58
/ref> According to the Macalister and Masterman, Musa "was famed for his bravery and generosity."
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1830 deaths
19th-century Egyptian people
19th-century Ottoman military personnel
Arabs in Ottoman Palestine
People from Faiyum
People from Gaza City