Dawud Pasha of Baghdad

Daud Pasha (Georgian დაუდ ფაშა, * 1797, † 1851) was the last Mamlukenherrscher of Iraq in the Ottoman State Association. After his unsuccessful rebellion against the central government in 1831, the political privileges of the Mamluks in the province were abolished. He came from a Mamlukenfamilie Georgian origin.

Daud Pasha tried analogous to Muhammad Ali Pasha, the governor of Egypt, to modernize his country economically, administratively and militarily. The political stage he dominated by coercive measures. So he had to report numerous tribal leaders and replace him agreeable candidates. His campaigns against Kurdish separatists were a factor in the outbreak of the war, the Ottoman Empire with Persia 1821-1823, which ended with an Ottoman defeat.

After another defeat of the Empire in the war against Russia 1828-1829 Daud Pasha saw the central government to be so weakened that he risked a rebellion. He was quickly defeated by an expeditionary army under Ali Reza Pasha, the governor of Aleppo. Daud was deposed and ended the Mamlukenherrschaft. Daud himself, however, was rehabilitated and relied on various subordinate posts. He died in office of the Guardian of the Holy Places in Medina in the Hijaz.