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Ahmed Pasha al-
Jazzar (Arabic: أحمد باشا الجزّار, c. 1720–30s – 7 May 1804) was the Acre-based
Bosniak Ottoman governor of
Sidon Eyalet from 1776 until...
- The el-
Jazzar Mosque (Arabic: مسجد الجزار,
Masjid al-
Jazzār; Hebrew: מסגד אל-ג'זאר,
Misgad al-G'zar), also
known as the
White Mosque of Acre, is located...
- Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Khālid ibn al-
Jazzār al-Qayrawani (895–979) (Arabic: أبو جعفر أحمد بن أبي خالد بن الجزار القيرواني), was a 10th-century...
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loyalist Jazzar Pasha took over
Beirut from
local Druze sheikhs. The
Druze had
previously been in
conflict with Zahir, but due to
Jazzar's offensive...
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Jazzar's improvements were
accomplished through heavy imposts secured for
himself all the
benefits derived from his improvements.
About 1780,
Jazzar peremptorily...
- later, however, al-
Jazzar attempted to
collect Yusuf's
promissory bribe, but
payment of the
large sum did not materialize, and al-
Jazzar shifted his support...
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declined a
bounty on al-
Jazzar by Abu al-Dhahab (al-
Jazzar was
wanted by the
Mamluk strongmen of
Ottoman Egypt). However, al-
Jazzar soon
began acting independently...
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regional dominance was
further elevated under Zahir's
successor Ahmad Pasha al-
Jazzar at the
expense of Damascus. In 1830, on the eve of
Muhammad Ali's invasion...
- soldier) by
Jazzar Pasha either while the
latter was in
Egypt or in his
first years in
Syria in the 1770s. He
became a
member of
Jazzar's inner circle...
- and
remedies for
problems including constipation.
Arabic physician Ibn Al-
Jazzar Al-Qayrawani (Algizar, c. 898–980)
wrote on the
aches and
conditions of...
