As'ad Pasha al-Azm — Arabic Wikipedia

Arabic encyclopedia article 'As'ad Isma'il al-Azm'; its lead dates him (1701–1757), while its body, citing the historian Ibn Miru, gives his birth in 1117 AH at Ma'arrat al-Nu'man, and records that he governed Hama and then Damascus for fourteen years and was commander of the Syrian Hajj caravan.