Mustafa Zihni Pasha Explained

Honorific-Suffix:	Pasha
Nationality:	Ottoman
Birth Date:	1838
Birth Place:	Sulaimaniyah, Ottoman Empire
Death Date:	1911
Death Place:	Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Party:	Society for the Rise of Kurdistan

Mustafa Zihni Pasha (1838–1911) was an Ottoman Kurd who held a number of influential Ottoman administrative posts. He was also a notable member of the Society for the Rise of Kurdistan.

He was described by Barré de Lancy and Charles Woods as an honest, fair and impartial man, Mustafa Zihni was also described as belonging to the highest Ottoman class.^[1]

He had an estate in Constantinople where he lived with his three sons, Ahmet Naim Bey, Ismail Hakki Bey and Huseyin Shukru Bey.

Posts

• Minister of Commerce and Public Works^[2]
• Vali (governor) of the provinces of Hejaz, Ioannina, Adana^[3] and Aleppo^[4]
• Member of the Senate of the Ottoman Empire
• Chief of naval operations
• Head inspector of the army
• Sultan's special representative to Crete
• Chief secretary (Mektupcu) of the Baghdad Province
• Sub-governor (Mutasarrıf) of Burdur, a sanjak within the province of Konya

Notes and References

1. Book: Laruelle, Marlene. Tajikistan on the Move: Statebuilding and Societal Transformations. Rowman & Littlefield. 2018. 978-1498546522. 297.
2. Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events: Embracing political, military, and ecclesiastical affairs; public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry, Volume 6, D. Appleton and company
3. The Danger Zone of Europe Changes and Problems in the Near East, Henry Charles Woods
4. The Fortnightly, Volume 61, Volume 67, Chapman and Hall, 1897