قره مصطفى باشا
قره مصطفى باشا
Kara Mustafa Pasha — Mehmed IV's grand vizier who ended the women's interference in the sultanate and crushed palace corruption and highway robbery across the provinces 1.
At a glance
- Roles
- Ruler · military
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Anatolia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Overview
Qara Mustafa Pasha, grand vizier in the reign of Sultan Mehmed IV. 1
His reforms
Al-Salabi says that he was able to stop the interference of women in the affairs of the sultanate, and succeeded in suppressing the attempts of court men to corrupt the state. He put down the mischief-makers, the troublemakers and the highwaymen in various provinces. 1
What is not stated here
This is the author's assessment. The siege of Vienna and the rest of his career do not appear in the data for this page. It needs an additional source.
Sources
- al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001), p. 307
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islam.museum contributors. “قره مصطفى باشا”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/kara-mustafa-pasha/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.