[2] Over the past hundred years, a number of scholarly research publications have appeared relating to Damat Ali-Paša's turbeh.

This identification challenged the widespread belief that the turbeh was the burial place of Kara Mustafa Pasha, who, in 1683, after the defeat near Vienna, was murdered in Belgrade by the order of sultan Mehmed IV.

The restored text from the scope proves that the structure was originally erected at the burial site of Damat Ali-Paša, and that it was rebuilt in 1818–1819.

In a 1977 study of Ottoman architecture in Belgrade, Divan Đurić-Zamolo argued that the structure dated back to 1716–1717;[3] and the architect I. Zdravković concurred with this view.

The largest and most detailed study to date was published by Marko Popović in 1991, and demonstrates that the turbeh was erected in 1784 as the memorial to Izzet Mehmed Pasha.