سليمان باشا الخادم
سليمان باشا الخادم
Sulayman Pasha al-Khadim — governor of Egypt under Sulayman the Magnificent who led the 1538 Ottoman expedition to India: he garrisoned Aden, besieged Diu, captured a forward castle with eighty prisoners and withdrew when Portuguese reinforcements arrived 1.
At a glance
- Roles
- military · Ruler
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Egypt & Nile · Arabia · South Asia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Overview
The campaign to India
According to al-Salabi, he received a sultanic decree to equip a fleet at Suez and set out for India, and to cut the roads leading to Mecca from the Portuguese. He reached Jeddah in seven days, then headed for Kamaran and took control of Aden, and appointed over it a garrison of six hundred soldiers 2.
He besieged Diu and could not storm it, and withdrew after losing some four hundred of his men. He then took one of the forward fortresses and captured eighty Portuguese. The source holds that the fortresses would have surrendered had it not been for the new Portuguese reinforcements 2.
The date is approximate in the source, and the entry needs an additional source.
Connections
- Ruler of
- Misr (Egypt)
- Participated in
- حملة سليمان الخادم على الهند
People and things also explored
Muwatta 519· Muwatta 548· Muwatta 690· Muwatta 762· Sarah· سليمان القانوني· Aden· حملة سليمان الخادم على الهند
Sources
- al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001), p. 196
- al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001), p.196
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “سليمان باشا الخادم”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/sulayman-pasha-khadim/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.