Sinanüddin Fakih Yusuf Pasha

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Sinanüddin Fakih Yusuf
Çandarlı Halil Pasha the Elder
Personal details
DiedSeptember 1364

Sinanüddin Fakih Yusuf Pasha (

Orhan and the first grand vizier of Sultan Murad I
.

A 1360 inscription by sultan Orhan mentions Sinanüddin Fakih Yusuf and notes that he was the son of a man named Muslihuddin Musa and the grandson of a man named Mecdüddin İsa. It is also understood from this inscription that he was an Ahi who served as Ottoman bureaucrats.

After his death (and the end of his term), the former

Çandarlı Halil Pasha the Elder became grand vizier, beginning the "Çandarlı era" of the Ottoman Empire, where the prominent Çandarlı family
supplied several generations of grand viziers and held great political power.

See also

References

  1. ^ İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971, p. 8. (Turkish)
Political offices
Preceded by
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire

1349–1364
Succeeded by
Çandarlı Halil Pasha the Elder