Edib Paşa
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Highlights
Hasan Edib Paşa was born in Karaferye and was the son of Yanyalı Şeyh Yusuf Efendizâde Mehmed İlâhî Efendi. The family circle was known by the name Mollazâde, and in family memory it was connected to the lineage of Çorumlu Sinan Paşa, one of the viziers of the age of Mehmed the Conqueror.
After his early education, he entered the army in 1867 as a battalion clerk, beginning a military-administrative career that would last thirty-nine years.
During the Ottoman-Russian War of 1877-1878, he served on the Sohum front with the rank of major; his ranks then advanced and he rose to ferik. He was assigned to maintain order and pursue bandits in Edirne, and after these services was included among the sultan’s aides-de-camp.
Hasan Edib Paşa’s career was shaped especially in crisis regions of the Balkans. After serving as governor of Debre sanjak, he held the governorships of Shkodra and Manastır, serving as governor of Shkodra in 1896 and of Manastır in 1901 during the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid.
After disturbances broke out in Skopje in 1900, a special delegation consisting of Ferik Hasan Edib Paşa, one of the sultan’s aides-de-camp, and Mirliva Sadık Paşa was sent to the region. The delegation’s duty was to send the ringleaders to Istanbul and disperse the gathered crowd.
After his duties along the Debre, Shkodra and Manastır line of Albania-Macedonia, he also served as president of the Extraordinary Military Court of Salonica.
Hasan Edib Paşa contracted pneumonia, died on 1 April 1904, and was buried in the Fatih Mosque Cemetery.
Epitaph
Allah is Everlasting. A Fatiha for the soul of Lieutenant General Edib Paşa, former governor of Manastir, who died of pneumonia while serving as an aide-de-camp to the sultan. 1 April 1904. Life: 58 years; military service: 39 years.
Edib Paşa, whose final headquarters is this grave, was a soldier whose loyalty and views were accepted by all. He descended from Çorumlu Çelebi Sinan Paşa, one of the viziers of Sultan Mehmed Khan, father of conquests and campaigns. He was of the line of Mehmed İlâhî Efendi, son of Şeyh Yusuf Efendi of Ioannina, known as Mollazade and believed to be a saint. He was born in Karaferye in 1846. After his education, he entered the army as a battalion clerk in the month of Şevval 1865. Because of his diligence, he was appointed to various services. As a major he took part in the Battle of Sukhum. After displaying many qualities there, he rose successively in rank. In August 1889 he was summoned to Istanbul and sent to Edirne with the task of ensuring the city’s security and clearing it of bandits.
A Fatiha for his/her soul