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experienced a plague from
November 1625 to June 1626, which, although largely restricted to affecting those over 60 years old, nevertheless reportedly killed approximately 300,000 people. To mollify and hasten the grieving process (and possibly to avoid further contagion from corpses), Mustafa Pasha
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to higher-than-expected level, but the waters receded in time for sowing, and a successful harvest followed. Mustafa Pasha reportedly confiscated the inheritances of a large number of wealthy
Egyptians for himself, growing wealthy from the practice; when heirs existed, he would reportedly fake their
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As the soldiers welcomed
Mustafa Pasha back as governor, he privately wrote to the sultan to ask for a confirmation of his re-commencement of the office, with many local figures also writing to the sultan on his behalf. When the soldiers were informed that the now-unemployed replacement governor
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The entire army then reportedly swore on the Quran to be resolute in their will. The next day, 11 October 1623, the armies and the sanjak-beys had
Mustafa Pasha read the sultan's orders for his replacement and audit. When the army members again demanded compensation from the new
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banned all funerals, and the bodies were carried through the streets and buried without ceremony. Mustafa Pasha was dismissed from the office of governor for the second and final time on 16 May 1626.
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arrived with a letter from the sultan in
Constantinople confirming the reinstatement, and soon afterwards, the chief footman of the sultan arrived to deliver Mustafa Pasha's governor's
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No news arrived from the capital confirming or denying whether
Mustafa Pasha was the rightful governor, and the populace began to grow uneasy. Finally, on 16 February 1624, a
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after only five months in office, as the custom of the sultans was to change the governors of Egypt in rapid succession, the local
Ottoman troops marched to the new
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to the throne, as well as the political chaos around the event that occurred before
Ibrahim Pasha arrived back in Constantinople, allowed him to keep the money.
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and deputy governor, they reproached the soldiers by saying that they constantly demanded the same thing every three months, to which the soldiers replied,
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before they escaped. The soldiers then declared, "We will have no other governor than
Mustafa; let Ali return to the place from whence he came."
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is already arrived in that city, they will put him into his hands; if they do not find him there, let them conduct him to
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delayed them until the next day and at the same time asked them to bring Mustafa Pasha to him, as the
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s house and demanded the bonus salaries they usually received when the governor was replaced. The new
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of failing to pay the customary contribution of every governor of Egypt to the treasury. He sent his
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s initial task was to analyze the affairs of Mustafa Pasha; one of the paintings belonging to the
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After leaving office, Mustafa Pasha was hounded by his successor
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