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Governor of Egypt from 1517 to 1522
Hayır Bey (sometimes spelled Kha'ir Bey or Kha'ir Beg ) or Khayrbak (died 1522)
ruled
Egypt in the name of the
Ottoman Empire from 1517 until his death in 1522.
[1]
[2]
[3] He was granted the position of governor by sultan
Selim I of the
Ottoman Empire for his help in the conquest of Egypt.
Being of
Abkhazian origin,
[4] he was the former
Mamluk governor of
Aleppo who contributed to the Ottoman victory at the
Battle of Marj Dabiq . After the
Ottoman conquest of the Mamluks and the end of the
Mamluk Sultanate , the grand vizier
Yunus Pasha was made the governor of Egypt. However, after Ottoman sultan
Selim I found out about Yunus Pasha's corruption in governing, consisting of bribery and extortion, Hayır Bey was entrusted with the
governorship of Egypt .
[5]
His residence was the
Amir Alin Aq Palace and he built the
Amir Khayrbak Funerary Complex .
See also
References
^ Süreyya, Bey Mehmet, Nuri Akbayar, and Seyit Ali. Kahraman. Sicill-i Osmanî. Beşiktaş, İstanbul: Kültür Bakanlığı Ile Türkiye Ekonomik Ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı'nın Ortak Yayınıdır, 1890. Print.
^ Yılmaz Öztuna (1994).
Büyük Osmanlı Tarihi: Osmanlı Devleti'nin siyasî, medenî, kültür, teşkilât ve san'at tarihi . Vol. 10. Ötüken Neşriyat A.S. pp. 412–416.
ISBN
975-437-141-5 .
^ Behrens-abouseif, Doris; Crecelius, Daniel (1995), "Egypt's Adjustment to Ottoman Rule: Institutions, Waqf & Architecture in Cairo (16th & 17th Centuries), (Islamic History & Civilization, Volume 7)", Middle East Studies Association Bulletin , 29 (1): 90–91
^ А.Ш.Кадырбаев, Сайф-ад-Дин Хайр-Бек - абхазский "король эмиров" Мамлюкского Египта (1517-1522), "Материалы первой международной научной конференции, посвященной 65-летию В.Г.Ардзинба". Сухум: АбИГИ, 2011, pp. 87-95
^ D. E. Pitcher (1972).
An Historical Geography of the Ottoman Empire: From Earliest Times to the End of the Sixteenth Century . Brill Archive. p. 105. Retrieved 2 June 2013 .
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