Mehmed Emin Pasha was born a Jew in Germany, converted to Christianity and then Islam on his way to being named a ruler of an Ottoman province. AD BY The Daily Beast Published Mar. 6 2016 12:15AM EST ...

Mehmet Emin Pasha (March 28, 1840 - October 23, 1892), born Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer, was a doctor, naturalist and The Governor of Hattı Ustüva / Equatorial Province of Ottoman State ...

9. Ismail Enver Pasha. Ottoman Empire. Years in Power: 1913-1918 Ismail Enver Pasha, a war minister, de facto Commander-in-Chief, and a member of a triumvirate, including Talaat Pasha and Djemal ...

A military history of Egypt in the era of Ismail Pasha (1863-1879). Soon after becoming the Ottoman governor (later khedive) of Egypt in 1805, Mohammed Ali Pasha initiated a series of reforms that, ...

A Grisly Fable of Ottoman Albania. In Ismail Kadare’s novel “The Traitor’s Niche,” the quest for a rebel pasha’s head becomes a grimly comic comment on 20th-century authoritarianism.

For centuries, it has been the Zayd branch that ruled over Mecca, but in the 1830s a former Ottoman vassal and ruler of Egypt, Muhammad Ali Pasha, went to war against the Sultan, installing his ...