Mehmet Şerif Pasha ( ''Mehmet Şerif Paşa''; ) was an
Ottoman civil servant who served as
Vali of
Jeddah Eyalet and Shaykh al-Haram of
Mecca
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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
Haram
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in
Medina
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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 ''
vezir''. In 1845 following the death of
Osman Pasha 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
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in Muharrem 1268 AH (October/November 1851), around 80 years of age, and was buried there.
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*{{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
1770s births
1851 deaths
19th-century civil servants from the Ottoman Empire