Murad III Mehmed III (r. 1595–1603) Ahmed I (r. 1603–1617)
Preceded by
Ja'far Pasha al-Tuwashi
Succeeded by
Husayn Pasha al-Jalali
In office c. 1619 – October/November 1622
Monarch
Mustafa I (r. 1622–1623)
Preceded by
Husayn Pasha al-Jalali
Succeeded by
Umar Pasha Kittanji
In office 8 January 1623[a] – 22 July 1625[b]
Monarch
Murad IV (r. 1623–1640)
Preceded by
Umar Pasha Kittanji
Succeeded by
Qasim Sayfa Pasha[c]
Personal details
Died
22 July 1625
Relations
Ali Sayfa (brother or nephew)
Muhammad ibn Ali Sayfa (nephew)
Sulayman ibn Ali Sayfa (nephew)
Ahmed Sayfa (nephew)
Muhammad ibn Husayn (grandson)
Ali ibn Bint Yusuf (grandson)
Children
Husayn Pasha
Umar Pasha
Hasan
Qasim Pasha
Beylik
Mahmud
Assaf
Parent
Muhammad Sayfa (father)
Yusuf Sayfa Pasha (Arabic: يوسف سيفا باشا, romanized: Yūsuf Sayfā Pāsha; c. 1510 – 22 July 1625) was a chieftain and multazim (tax farmer) in the Tripoli region who frequently served as the Ottoman beylerbey (provincial governor) of Tripoli Eyalet between 1579 and his death.
Yusuf or his family may have been Kurdish or Turkmen levends (tribal irregulars) from Marash and were established in Tripoli's vicinity by at least the 1510s–1520s. He became a multazim in Akkar subordinate to the Assaf chieftains of the Keserwan for most of his career until his promotion to the rank of pasha and appointment as Tripoli's first beylerbey in 1579. Hostilities consequently ensued with the Assafs, ending with Yusuf's assassination of their last chieftain in 1591 and his confiscation of their tax farms. His takeover of the Keserwan and Beirut prompted his first confrontation with Fakhr al-Din II, the Druze chieftain and sanjak-bey (district governor) of Sidon-Beirut in 1598. He was given command by the Sublime Porte (Ottoman imperial government) over the armies in the region of Syria to suppress the rebel Ali Janbulad of Aleppo in 1606. After a series of defeats at Hama, Tripoli and Damascus, he submitted to Janbulad at Krak des Chevaliers (Hisn al-Akrad), though the rebellion was suppressed in 1607.
Relations with the Ottomans deteriorated over the next ten years, a period in which Fakhr al-Din gained steady advantage over Yusuf, who was abandoned by most of his local allies and his nephews. To prevent Fakhr al-Din from gaining total control over Tripoli, the Porte reappointed Yusuf beylerbey in 1619. He remained under financial strain with large debts due to the Porte and owed to Fakhr al-Din, who gained control over most of the eyalet's districts. With his death in 1625, the Sayfas' power gradually dissipated and most of the family was exterminated by the Ottomans by the mid-17th century.
Yusuf was noted by contemporary historians for his generosity and patronage of poets and Sufis, which contributed to his poor financial state. Neither he nor his family developed Tripoli or its eyalet, which declined economically in contrast to the thriving domains of Fakhr al-Din. Although he was viewed favorably by the Sunni Muslims of Tripoli and Akkar for his loyalty to the Ottomans, he was resented by the Maronite peasantry for executing unpopular and ruinous government measures.
^Abu-Husayn 1985, p. 51.
^Abu-Husayn 1985, pp. 53–54.
^Abu-Husayn 1985, p. 55.
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YusufSayfa Pasha (Arabic: يوسف سيفا باشا, romanized: YūsufSayfā Pāsha; c. 1510 – 22 July 1625) was a chieftain and multazim (tax farmer) in the Tripoli...
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late 13th century. It became the headquarters of the Sayfa clan, whose members, chief among them Yusuf Pasha, served as the governors and tax farmers of...
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of Jabal Amil. In the 1610s he defeated his two principal opponents, YusufSayfa and Amir Mansur ibn Furaykh. This, coupled with his attack on Damascus...
with the Kurdish rebel Ali Janbulad of Aleppo against his local rival YusufSayfa of Tripoli; the latter had been invested as commander-in-chief of the...
Ghazir to Tripoli. In 1613, YusufSayfa Pasha installed his sons Husayn Pasha and Hasan Bey in Ghazir to maintain Sayfa control over Keserwan. The following...
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in their wars with the Druze Ma'an dynasty of Mount Lebanon. In 1621 YusufSayfa dispatched a force against his nephew, and ally of the Ma'anid Fakhr...
prominently Fakhr al-Din Ma'n of Mount Lebanon and his erstwhile enemy YusufSayfa Pasha of Tripoli. Ali formed a secret military alliance with the Grand...
militarily supported Ali ibn Muhammad, the grandnephew of YusufSayfa, in his victory against Yusuf's son Assaf in a battle at Iaal near Tripoli in 1634. He...
with the Kurdish rebel Ali Janbulad of Aleppo against his local rival YusufSayfa of Tripoli; the latter had been invested as commander-in-chief of the...
helped the Ottomans defeat the rebel Ali Janbulad and gave shelter to YusufSayfa—Janbulad's principal rival. Ahmad, in coordination with the governors...
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the region, YusufSayfa, in Haifa after the rebels ousted him from Tripoli. Janbulad demanded Ahmad execute Yusuf, but he refused, and Yusuf made his way...
emir of Ras Nhash was a certain Musa, who was the closest local ally of YusufSayfa, the on–and–off governor of Tripoli in 1579–1625. "Ras Nahhach". Localiban...
with the Kurdish rebel Ali Janbulad of Aleppo against his local rival YusufSayfa of Tripoli; the latter had been invested as commander-in-chief of the...
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