Seyyid Emir Mehmed Pasha ( Turkish: Şerif/Seyyid/Emir Mehmed Paşa), known by the epithet "al-Sharif" among his Arab subjects, was an Ottoman statesman who served as defterdar [1] (finance minister) (1589–1593, 1595), Ottoman governor of Egypt (1596–1598), [2] [3] [4] and Ottoman governor of Damascus (1599–1600).
He was a descendant of Hussein ibn Ali, earning him the epithet " sayyid." While he was the governor of Egypt (with the title beylerbey, often known as viceroy), he was reportedly a frequent visitor of the Al-Hussein Mosque in Cairo. [2] In 1599, he became a vizier. [1]