Surname: Pasha Forename(s): Hafiz Ahmed d. 1632. Nationality: Ottoman. VIAF.
Poet and Ottoman grand vizier. Rose to the position of muṣāḥib (confidant to the sultan).
Involved with the failed siege of Baghdad (1625-1626). Biographical information: E.
J. W. Gibb, Ottoman Poems: Translated Into English Verse in the Original Forms, with Introduction,
Biographical Notices, and Notes, Trübner & Company, 1882, pp. 208-9; V. J. Parry, Hafiz Ahmed Pasha,Encyclopedia of Islam, Second Edition, Vol. III (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2012) pp. 58–9. (SCM, BGL)