Cerrah Mehmed Pasha Explained

Honorific-Prefix:	Cerrah
Mehmed
Honorific-Suffix:	Pasha
Office1:	Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
Monarch1:	Mehmed III
Term Start1:	9 April 1598
Term End1:	6 January 1599
Predecessor1:	Hadım Hasan Pasha
Successor1:	Damat Ibrahim Pasha
Death Date:	January 1604
Death Place:	Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Nationality:	Ottoman
Blank1:	Ethnicity
Children:	Sultanzade Salih Bey

Cerrah Mehmed Pasha (Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928);: جراح محمد پاشا; died January 1604, Istanbul) was an Ottoman statesman. He was grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1598 to 1599.^[1]

Mehmed Pasha was the palace surgeon prior to becoming grand vizier, hence his epithet cerrah 'surgeon'. The Istanbul neighborhood of Cerrahpaşa and one of the two medical faculties of Istanbul University, (the other being), are named after him.

Family

In 1579 he married Gevherhan Sultan, a daughter of Sultan Selim II and Nurbanu Sultan. He was her second husband.^[2]

They had at least a son:^[3]

• Sultanzade Salih Bey. Governor of Klis.

See also

• List of Ottoman grand viziers

References

Works cited

• Book: Peirce, Leslie P. . The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire . Oxford . Oxford University Press . 1993 . 9780195086775.

Notes and References

1. Uzunçarşılı, İsmail Hakkı, (1954) Osmanlı Tarihi III. Cilt, 2. Kısım, XVI. Yüzyıl Ortalarından XVII. Yüzyıl Sonuna kadar), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu (Altıncı Baskı 2011), p. 358
2. Book: Tezcan, Baki. Searching for Osman: A reassessment of the deposition of the Ottoman Sultan Osman II (1618-1622). November 2001. 327 n. 16, 343 n. 132.
3. According to some sources, Hatice Hanımsultan, Gevherhan's youngest daughter and Salih's elder half-sister, was also actually born by this marriage and was Cerrah Mehmed's daughter and Salih's full elder sister.