İbrahim Paşa

Profile summary

Birth / DeathUnknown / 1904
PositionCommander of the Beirut Gendarmerie
Cemetery Number155
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Highlights

  • İbrahim Paşa, whose exact date of birth is unknown, was born in Erzincan.

  • The Beirut Gendarmerie Command in which he served as commander was a military-administrative office representing public order in one of the Ottoman Empire’s most sensitive provincial centers on the eastern Mediterranean coast.

  • The period in which İbrahim Paşa served coincided with the years when the gendarmerie organization was reorganized during the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II. With the regulation of 1888, gendarmerie regiments and battalions spread through the provinces became more clearly defined.

  • El-Hâc İbrahim Paşa-i Erzincânî died in the years 1322 in the Hijri calendar and 1320 in the Rumi calendar (1904) and was buried in the Fatih Mosque Cemetery.

Epitaph

He is the Eternal. O Allah, make my abode a place of peace and safety. On the Day of Resurrection, make the face of this poor servant smile. When our Prophet, the pride of the universe, calls out "my community," forgive my sin, for You are the Most Merciful of all. A Fatiha for the soul of the late Erzincanlı Hacı İbrahim Paşa, former commander of the Beirut Gendarmerie. Year 1904.

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