Haseki Mehmed Pasha (also known as Mehmed Pasha Haseki or Mehmed Pasha Abu'l-Nur; fl. 1648–1661) was an Ottoman statesman and administrator. He served as the Ottoman governor of Damascus Eyalet (1650–52, 1656),[1][2][3] Egypt Eyalet (1652–56),[1][3][4][5][6] Baghdad Eyalet (1656–59),[1][6] and Aleppo Eyalet (1659–61). He married Gevherhan Sultan, daughter of Murad IV.[1][6]
Mehmed Pasha was educated in the Enderun palace school.[1][6]
In July 1650, Mehmed Pasha became a vizier and was appointed the governor of Damascus Eyalet of the Ottoman Empire for the first time.[6] On September 9, 1652, he was appointed the governor of Egypt Eyalet, a post he held until May 1656.[6] One month after leaving the post, in June 1656, he was appointed the governor of Damascus a second time, but only held the post for three months, being dismissed in September.[6] That fall, in October or November 1656, he was made the governor of Baghdad Eyalet.[6] In late summer 1659, he became the governor of Aleppo Eyalet, but was dismissed in June 1661 by sultan Mehmed IV for minting too much coinage and thus causing inflation.[1][6]
While governor of Egypt, he had a mosque built in the vicinity.[1][7] He was known by the local Egyptians as Abu'l-Nur, or "the father of light," for restoring buildings and whitewashing them.[6][8]
Also while governor of Baghdad, Mehmed Pasha sequenced works of diwan poetry.[6]