Abdullah Pasha al-Azm

Abdullah al-Azm Pasha
Wali of Damascus
In office 1805–1807
Preceded by	Ibrahim Pasha Qataraghasi
Succeeded by	Kunj Yusuf Pasha
In office 1799–1803
Preceded by	Jazzar Pasha
Succeeded by	Jazzar Pasha
In office 1795–1798
Preceded by	Jazzar Pasha
Succeeded by	Jazzar Pasha
Wali of Egypt
In office 1798–1799
Preceded by	Lokmacı Hacı Ebubekir Pasha
Succeeded by	Nasuh Pasha al-Azm
Wali of Aleppo
In office 1794–1795
Succeeded by	Ibrahim Pasha al-Halabi
Personal details
Died	Hama, Damascus Eyalet, Ottoman Empire
Nationality	Ottoman
Relations	Al-Azm family
Children	Muhammad Yadu Hafiz Bey Ahmad Bey Fatima
Parents	Muhammad Pasha al-Azm (father)
Religion	Islam

Abdullah Pasha al-Azm (fl. 1783–1810) was an Ottoman statesman who served as the governor of the Damascus Eyalet (three separate terms, 1795–1807), Aleppo Eyalet (1794), Egypt Eyalet (1798), Adana Eyalet, and Rakka Eyalet (1809), before retiring to Hama in the 1810s. He was a member of the prominent political family, Al-Azm.

Abdullah Pasha served under his father Muhammad Pasha al-Azm, who was governor of Damascus Eyalet (1771, 1773–1783), as the governor of Tripoli Eyalet and as amir al-hajj, the commander of the army tasked with supplying food to the pilgrim caravan returning to Syria from the Hajj (annual pilgrimage to Mecca). Abdullah Pasha was appointed to the governorship of Aleppo Eyalet in 1794.

After serving one year as Aleppo's wali (provincial governor), Abdullah Pasha was transferred to Damascus Eyalet in 1795. He replaced his longtime rival, Jazzar Pasha who ruled Damascus from his stronghold in Acre, then capital of Sidon Eyalet. Abdullah Pasha's appointment was well received by the population of Damascus, who had prospered under the relatively long and peaceful rule of his father, as well as the other previous members of his al-Azm family, like As'ad Pasha and Sulayman Pasha, who also served terms as governors. Abdullah Pasha immediately had As'ad Effendi al-Mahasini, the Mufti of Damascus and ally of Jazzar Pasha, replaced with Abd al-Rahman Effendi al-Muradi.

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