List of governors of Gaza explained

The following is a list of governors of Gaza. During Mamluk and early Ottoman rule, Gaza served as the capital of a province which at times included most of central and southern Palestine or the coastal plain up to Jaffa.

Ayyubids

See also: Ayyubid dynasty.

• Nasir al-Din (1244–1245)

Mamluks

See also: Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo).

• Shams el-Din al-Barli (1259-1264)
• Baybars al-Ala'i (1307–1309)
• Baktamur (1310–1311)
• Sanjar al-Jawli (1311–1320)
• Muhammad ibn Baktamur (1320–1329)
• Turuntay al-Jukandari (1329–1332)
• Taynal al-Ashrafi (1332–1335)
• Sanjar al-Jawli (1342)
• Ahmad al-Hajji (1373-1375)
• Muhammad al-Adili (1375)
• Akbugha al-Safawi (1375–1381)^[1]
• Husam ad-Din Bakish (1382)
• Aqbugha al-Tulutumari (?-1398)
• Sayf ad-Din Inal al-Ala'i (1428–1433)
• Timraz al-Mu'ayyadi (ca 1436-1437)^[2]
• Yalkhuja an-Nasiri (1445–1446)
• Sibay az-Zahiri (ca. 1482)
• Aqbay al-Ashrafi (1482–1494)^[3]
• Qani Bak (1494–1495)^[3]
• Aqbay al-Ashrafi (1495–1496)^[3]
• Dawlat Bay (1501–1517)

Ottoman

See also: Damascus Eyalet.

• Sharaf ad-Din Musa al-Muzaffari (1517–1524)
• Kara Şahin Mustafa (1524–1550)
• Ridwan Pasha (1550–1565)
• Sinan Bey (1565–1567)
• Ridwan Pasha (1567–1572)
• Ahmad ibn Ridwan (1572–1601)
• Hasan Arab Ridwan (1601–1660)
• Husayn Pasha (1660–1663)
• Musa Pasha (1663–1679)
• Ahmad ibn Musa Pasha (1679-1690)
• Sayed Ahmad (1708–1723)
• Salih Pasha Touqan (1723–?)
• Uthman Pasha (1760–1773)^[4]
• Zahir al-Umar (1773–1774)
• Suleiman Pasha (1804–1805)
• Muhammad Abu Marraq (1805–1807)
• Muhammad Abu-Nabbut (1807–1818)
• Mustafa Bey (1818–1820)
• Abdullah Pasha (1820–1831)
• Mas'ud al-Madi (1831–1834)
• Mahmud Abd al-Hadi (1849)
• Ahmad Rifaat Bak ash-Sharkasi (ca. 1868)

See also

• History of Gaza

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Notes and References

1. Muḥammad Ibn-Muḥammad Ibn-Ṣaṣrā, A Chronicle of Damascus 1389-1397, University of California Press, p.15.
2. Mayer, 1933, pp. 230-231
3. Sharon, 1999, p. 150
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=FEOeNwAACAAJ The province of Damascus, 1723-1783