At a glance
- Roles
- grand-vizier · military-leader
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Anatolia · Maghreb
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Summary
Ottoman kapudan pasha; the man sent to annex Morocco, and the last of the beylerbeys 1.
The Morocco bid
Once the state was settled in Tunis, Uluj Ali set his sights on annexing Morocco and was ordered to march, reaching Algiers in Jumada II 989/June 1581. But Ahmad al-Mansur camped at the Tensift, sealed his passes, fortified the shores and sent an embassy to Istanbul after a near-agreement with Spain trading Larache — so the sultan accepted the fait accompli and ordered him and his deputy Jafar Pasha to abandon Morocco for the east, where the Hejaz had grown troubled. He gave up his ambition of recovering al-Andalus 2.
Death and aftermath
He died in 995/1587; with him ended Algiers' beylerbey system — which had made her governors near-sovereigns — replaced by the pasha system, and Hasan Veneziano succeeded him as kapudan of the sea 3.
Connections
- Opposed by
- Ahmad al-Mansur al-Dhahabi al-Sa'di
- Predecessor of
- Hasan Veneziano
- Participated in
- Uluj Ali's bid to annex Morocco (989/1581)· End of the beylerbey system in Algiers (995/1587)
- Opposed
- Ahmad al-Mansur al-Dhahabi al-Sa'di
People and things also explored
Algiers· Uluj Ali's bid to annex Morocco (989/1581)· Ahmad al-Mansur al-Dhahabi al-Sa'di· Battle of Wadi al-Makhazin (986/1578)· Abd al-Malik al-Mu'tasim bi'llah al-Sa'di· Muhammad al-Shaykh al-Sa'di· مراد الثالث· Murad Reis of Algiers
Sources
- al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 270-273
- al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 270-271
- al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 272
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Kılıç Ali Pasha”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/kilic-ali-pasha/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.