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Muhammad b. Salih Reis

محمد بن صالح رايس

Beylerbey of Algiers after Hasan b. Khayr al-Din, from Dhu'l-Hijja 974/June 1567; his term met plague, famine, a Janissary mutiny and popular strikes, which consumed his attention, then the revolt of Constantine's governor — influenced by the Hafsid rulers of Tunis — whom he deposed, crushing the rising and appointing the commander Ramadan 1.

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The Gunpowder Empires
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Maghreb
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Beylerbey of Algiers from Dhu'l-Hijja 974/June 1567, succeeding Hasan b. Khayr al-Din 1.

A term of hardship

His governorship met plague, famine, a Janissary mutiny and popular strikes — he spent his time consoling the stricken and calming sedition — then crushed the revolt of Constantine's governor, influenced by Tunis's Hafsid rulers, appointing the commander Ramadan over the city 1.

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Child of
Salih Reis
Ruled over
Algiers
Successor of
Hasan b. Khayr al-Din Barbarossa

People and things also explored

Hasan b. Khayr al-Din Barbarossa· Salih Reis· Algiers· Hasan Agha al-Tushi· Hasan Corso· خير الدين بربروسة· Charles V's Algiers expedition (1541)· Algiers enters Ottoman sovereignty (1519)

Sources

  1. al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 252
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Hasan b. Khayr al-Din Barbarossa

Khayr al-Din Barbarossa's son, of a noted Algerian family on his mother's side; the Porte's governor of Algiers from 951/1544. He refortified the city's weak points shown by Charles V's attack, kept the Oran force from restoring Abu Zayyan Ahmad II at Tlemcen, secured the Ottoman garrison at al-Mashwar castle, and drove the Sa'dis out by 959/1551 (printed '1151'). But his hostility to all foreign powers — France included — and his refusal of the French envoy's military aid ('jihad is the Muslims' affair; I will not win by an infidel against an infidel') let the envoy poison the Porte's ear: Süleyman deposed him in Safar 960/January 1552, giving the beylerbeylik to Salih Reis. After Hasan Corso's death in 964/1557 the sultan restored him; he raised ten thousand Zawawa, married Sultan Kuku's daughter, set Bu Yahya over Badis, fought Abd al-Aziz b. Abbas of Qal'at Bani Abbas until his fall, and recognised his successor Ahmad Muqran. The Janissaries, fearing he meant independence, arrested him in summer 969/1561 and shipped him bound to Istanbul — yet the sultan returned him a third time in late 970/1562 with ten warships. He besieged Oran on 13 April 1563 with fifteen thousand musketeers, a thousand horse, and twelve thousand Zawawa and Bani Abbas, lifting it as relief converged; shared in the Malta siege of 973/1565 with twenty-five ships and three thousand men; and in 975/1567 Selim II made him commander-in-chief of the fleet.