Naili Abdullah Pasha (died August 1758) was an
Ottoman Grand Vizier
Grand vizier ( fa, وزيرِ اعظم, vazîr-i aʾzam; ota, صدر اعظم, sadr-ı aʾzam; tr, sadrazam) was the title of the effective head of government of many sovereign states in the Islamic world. The office of Grand Vizier was first ...
.
Naili Abdullah was a
Turk
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from
Constantinople
la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه
, alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...
and took a job in Ottoman bureaucracy. After several minor posts, he was appointed as the ''
reis ül-küttab'' (chief of clerks, a post analogous to foreign minister in this period) in 1747, during the reign of
Mahmud I
Mahmud I ( ota, محمود اول, tr, I. Mahmud, 2 August 1696 13 December 1754), known as Mahmud the Hunchback, was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1730 to 1754. He took over the throne after the Patrona Halil rebellion and he kept goo ...
. Eight years later, on May 19, 1755, during the reign of
Osman III, he was appointed as the Grand Vizier, the highest post of the empire next to that of the sultan. However, Osman III was a weak sultan and was under the influence of
Nişancı Ali Pasha, Naili Abdullah's rival. Naili Abdullah Pasha was dismissed by the sultan after only three months in the office on August 24, 1755. He was then appointed as the governor of
Crete
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. Three years later, he was appointed the governor of
Jeddah
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(in modern
Saudi Arabia
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) upon his request. However, he died in
Medina
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on his way to Jeddah in August 1758.
[Ayhan Buz: ''Osmanlı sadrazamları'', Neden Kitap, İstanbul, 2009 , pp 243-244]
See also
*
List of Ottoman Grand Viziers
References
18th-century Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire
Pashas
1758 deaths
Year of birth unknown
Reis ül-Küttab
Ottoman governors of Crete
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