Hadım Şehabeddin

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Hadim

Şehabeddin

Pasha
Nickname(s)Kula Şahin
Died1453
Bursa, Ottoman Empire (modern-day Turkey)
Buried
Plovdiv, Ottoman Empire (modern-day Bulgaria)
Rank
Battles/wars
  • Siege of Novo Brdo (1440—41)
  • Battle at
    Ialomița River
    (1442)

Hadım Şehabeddin Paşa (Old Turkish: Şihābüddīn; fl. 1436–53), also called Kula Şahin Paşa, was an

Janos Hunyadi in September 1442, he was dismissed from the position of beylerbey. After 1444 he was again briefly appointed to the position of beylerbey of Rumelia. Şehabeddin died in 1453 in Bursa
.

Name and early life

Şehabeddin is commonly identified also as Kula Şahin Paşa.

devşirme conscript.[4] "Şahin" is the common shortening of his name, "Şehabeddin".[3] The founding inscription at the Kirazli mosque dated 1436–37, commonly identified as the foundation of Şehabeddin, names his father "Abdullah".[1] He was brought to the Ottoman court at very young age, as a slave, and was probably of Georgian descent.[5] He completed the Enderun School[6] and served as a court eunuch (thus honourably titled hadim[3]) in the sultan's harem
and palace.

Military career

Türbe of Hadim Şehabeddin in Plovdiv

He advanced in the court hierarchy and became

sanjakbey (governor) of Sanjak of Albania. In 1439 he was appointed to the highest military position in the empire, the beylerbey (provincial governor) of the Rumelia Eyalet. Şehabeddin has been known as one of the "falcons" in the sultan's palace and an advocate of the aggressive expansionist Ottoman policy. Being hadim meant that he had access to the sultan's family which included his son known as Mehmed the Conqueror, in whom he might have planted the seed of thirst for expansion of the empire.[7]

Against the orders of Şehabeddin the Ottoman forces captured and garrisoned medieval fortress

Vučitrn at the time, wrote a letter to the Ragusans in which he guaranteed safe conduct to Ragusan diplomats. On 27 June 1441[10] forces under the command of Şehabeddin captured the mining district of Novo Brdo,[11] after having looted and burnt the town itself.[12] Şehabeddin received Ragusan diplomat Primović in Dobrijevo near Vučitrn and advised him that Ragusans should "honor sultan" with rich presents if they want to avoid paying tribute to Ottoman Empire. They took his advice and after a lot of effort reached an agreement with viziers and sultans to send them rich presents every year.[13]

Tunca River in Edirne
was built against orders of Şehabeddin

On 2 or 6

Janos Hunyadi.[14] After this defeat Şehabeddin was dismissed from the position of beylerbey of Rumelia.[15] In 1444 Şehabeddin appeared as commander of the forces that fought against Orhan, the challenger of the sultan's throne and again as beylerbey of Rumelia, in Varna. His advocacy of the aggressive expansionist policy made him the main rival of Çandarlı Halil Pasha the Younger.[7] He died in 1453 in Bursa[16] after he had witnessed the success of the expansionist policy he has always been advocating when Ottomans captured Constantinople and executed his main rival Çandarlı Halil Pasha.[7]

Legacy

Şehabeddin built a mosque in 1436 in

Tunca River in Edirne
was built against orders of Şehabeddin.

References

  1. ^ a b Dijkema 1977, p. 25.
  2. ^ a b c Rogers, DeVries & France 2012, p. 154.
  3. ^ a b c Jefferson 2012, p. 13.
  4. ISBN 9789545230721
    . Sehabeddin Pasa, devsirme conscript.
  5. ^ Jefferson 2012, p. 84.
  6. ISBN 9789757480945
    .
  7. ^ a b c Jefferson 2012, p. 85.
  8. Ćirković, Sima M. (1982). Istorija srpskog naroda: knj. Od najstarijih vremena do Maričke bitke (1371)
    . Srpska književna zadruga. p. 254.
  9. ISBN 9788671790215
    . Послове је непосредно надзирао ру- мелијски беглербег Шехабедин.
  10. ^ Setton, Hazard & Zacour 1990, p. 267.
  11. ^ Imber 1990, p. 119.
  12. ^ Vojni muzej JNA (1957). Vesnik. Vojni muzej JNA. p. 223. Posle toga Novo Brdo su opljaökali i popalild.
  13. ^ Godišnjak Društva istoričara Bosne i Hercegovine. Društvo istoričara Bosne i Hercegovine. 1986. p. 86. Kada je saslušao Primovićevo izlaganje u Dobrijevu kod Vučitrna, Sehabedin je blagonaklono savjetovao da Dubrovčani, ako već neće da plaćaju harač, trebaju naći neki drugi način da »ukažu čast sultanu«. Zato je Malo vijeće naredilo ...
  14. ^ Giurescu, Constantin C.; Matei, Horia C. (1976). Histoire Chronologique de la Roumanie. Editura științifică și enciclopedică. p. 88.
  15. ^ Jefferson 2012, p. 280.
  16. ^ Sahabettin Paşa (Hadım)
  17. ISBN 978-1-84564-506-9
    .
  18. ^ Gradu, Zbornik za Istocnjacku Istorisku i Knjizevnu (1940). Serija 1. p. 1119.

Sources

Political offices
Preceded by
 Beylerbey of the Rumelia Eyalet
1439—1442 		Succeeded by
Kasim Pasha
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