Abstract
This article focuses on the life of the Pasha who gained trust of Abdulhamid the 1th and had on active role on the administration and administrators at the backstage, the place of him in the presence of the Sultan and his heritage. During the period of Sultan’s armorer, he gave a reference about some grand viziers such as Izzet Mehmed Pasa from Safranbolu, Izzet Mehmed Pasa from Darende,Halil Hamid Pasa, as a person at a backstage in political environments, he got a good place in the eye of the Sultan. Through his foundation, he change the village of Arapsun where he was born into the subprovince of Gulsehir taking an example by Damat Ibrahim Pasha’s changing Muskara into Nevsehir. Apart from the danations he made to the foundation that he founded whit his own possesions, he had fur, gun, horse and jewellery collection. Besides his intelligence to gain bureaucratic positions, he is thought to be an enjoyable and a pleasant person, his nargile and stick collection reveal the tabacco passsion which was the trend of that era. Although most of his possessions have domestic and eastern origins, he had about one hundred kitchen utensils from Saxonia and Vienna, which shows that he wasn’t a stranger to European culture and taste. Within this scope, a lot of information was revealed for he first time with this study.Keywords: Grand Vizier, Karavezir, Seyyid Mehmed Pasha, Heritage, Material Culture.
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