Hadım Sinan Pasha

Hadım
Sinan Borovinić
Pasha
Hadım Sinan Borovinić Pasha
25th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
	In office; 26 April 1516 – 22 January 1517
Monarch	Selim I
Preceded by	Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha
Succeeded by	Yunus Pasha
Personal details
Died	22 January 1517; Ridaniya, Egypt
Military service
Battles/wars	Ottoman–Mamluk War: at Chaldiran, Marj Dabiq, Yaunis Khan and Battle of Ridaniya †

Hadım Sinan Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: خادم سنان پاشا, Turkish: Hadım Sinan Paşa, lit. 'Sinan Pasha the Eunuch'; Serbo-Croatian: Sinan-paša Borovinić; died 22 January 1517) was Bosnian-Ottoman nobleman, politician and statesman. He served as the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1516 to 1517. He was a eunuch.^[1]

Life

Early life

Sinan Pasha was of Bosnian descent. According to Ragusan documents the Borovinić noble family were from the Borovinići village near Foča.^[2] His ancestor Tvrtko Borovinić (fl. 1417–46) was a close relative of Grand Dukes of Bosnia, Radoslav Pavlović, whom he served as a vassal.

Sanjak-bey

From December 1496 he was sanjak-bey of Bosnia.^[3] From 1504 to 1506, he was the sanjak-bey of Herzegovina.^[4] In 1507–08 he expanded the Mostar mosque built in 1473 by an earlier Sinan Pasha who was the first sanjak-bey of Herzegovina.^[5] Then he was the sanjak-bey of Smederevo between 1506 and 1513.^[6] Hadim Sinan was a eunuch.^[1]

Beylerbey and Grand Vizier

In 1514, he was the Beylerbey (high governor) of Anatolia. In the battle of Chaldiran against Safavid Persia he was in charge of right flank. After the battle he was appointed as the beylerbey of Rumeli, a post more prestigious than his former post.^[7] His next mission was the conquest of the Dulkadirids, a vassal of the Mameluks, in what is now South Turkey. He defeated Bozkurt of Dulkadir in the Battle of Turnadağ. After the conquest of the beylik, Selim I (the Inflexible) appointed him as the grand vizier on April 25, 1516. Sinan was Selim's favorite grand vizier. He was active in the conquest of Syria and Egypt. He defeated and subdued the independent Kurdish emirate of Baban, making them an Ottoman vassal. On October 28, 1516, he defeated an Egyptian Mameluke army in Khan Yunis, near Gazza, Palestine.^[8] Next year, he fought in the Battle of Ridaniya in Egypt on January 22, 1517. In Ottoman battle tradition, the sultan was almost always in the central headquarters. But battle of Ridaniya was an exception. Selim I decided to encircle the Mameluks personally and assigned Sinan in the central headquarters. The plot was successful and the Mameluks were defeated. However, before the battle was over, Mameluk cavalry (including Tuman bay II, the Egyptian sultan) raided the Ottoman headquarters and killed Sinan, thinking he was the sultan.^[9] After the battle sultan Selim expressed his sorrow, saying, "We won the battle, but we lost Sinan."^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

There is information that Sinan Pasha being a eunuch married a daughter of Bayezid II (r. 1481–1512), conclusion drawn upon the fact that the husband of Ayşe Sultan is named Damat Guveyi Sinan Pasha who beget three children with Ayşe and died in 12 January 1504.^[10] Some tend to disagree.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ ^a ^b Peirce, Leslie P. (1993). The Imperial Harem Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford University Press. p. 304. ISBN 9780195086775.
^ Osmanlı tarihi. Türk Tarih Kurumu. 1983. p. 541.
^ Naučno društvo Bosne i Hercegovine: Odjeljenje istorisko-filoloških nauka. 1960.
^ Gazi Husrevbegova biblioteka u Sarajevu (1983). Anali Gazi Husrev-begove biblioteke. Gazi Husrev-begova biblioteka. p. 34.
^ Hivzija Hasandedić (1980). Spomenici kulture turskog doba u Mostaru. Veselin Masleša.
^ Evliya Çelebi; Hazim Šabanović (1996). Putopisi: odlomci o jugoslovenskim zemljama. Sarajevo-Publishing. p. 516.
^ Ayhan Buz: Osmanlı Sadrazamları, Neden Kitap, İstanbul, 2009 ISBN 978-975-254-278-5 p 33
^ Joseph von Hammer: Osmanlı Tarihi cilt I (condensation: Abdülkadir Karahan), Milliyet yayınları, İstanbul. p 275
^ Prof. Yaşar Yüce-Prof. Ali Sevim: Türkiye tarihi Cilt II, AKDTYKTTK Yayınları, İstanbul, 1991 p 248-249
^ Lowry, Heath W. (1 February 2012). The Nature of the Early Ottoman State. SUNY Press. p. 126. ISBN 978-0-7914-8726-6.

Political offices
Preceded by Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha	Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire 26 April 1516 – 22 January 1517	Succeeded by Yunus Pasha

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[peirce-1] Peirce, Leslie P. (1993). The Imperial Harem Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford University Press. p. 304. ISBN 9780195086775.

[OT-1983-541-2] Osmanlı tarihi. Türk Tarih Kurumu. 1983. p. 541.

[3] Naučno društvo Bosne i Hercegovine: Odjeljenje istorisko-filoloških nauka. 1960.

[Sarajevu1983-4] Gazi Husrevbegova biblioteka u Sarajevu (1983). Anali Gazi Husrev-begove biblioteke. Gazi Husrev-begova biblioteka. p. 34.

[Hasandedić1980-5] Hivzija Hasandedić (1980). Spomenici kulture turskog doba u Mostaru. Veselin Masleša.

[ÇelebiŠabanović1996-6] Evliya Çelebi; Hazim Šabanović (1996). Putopisi: odlomci o jugoslovenskim zemljama. Sarajevo-Publishing. p. 516.

[7] Ayhan Buz: Osmanlı Sadrazamları, Neden Kitap, İstanbul, 2009 ISBN 978-975-254-278-5 p 33

[8] Joseph von Hammer: Osmanlı Tarihi cilt I (condensation: Abdülkadir Karahan), Milliyet yayınları, İstanbul. p 275

[9] Prof. Yaşar Yüce-Prof. Ali Sevim: Türkiye tarihi Cilt II, AKDTYKTTK Yayınları, İstanbul, 1991 p 248-249

[Lowry-2012-Nature_of_the_Early_Ottoman-p.126-10] Lowry, Heath W. (1 February 2012). The Nature of the Early Ottoman State. SUNY Press. p. 126. ISBN 978-0-7914-8726-6.

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