[1][2] Dervish Pasha died in 1602/1603 during an Ottoman military campaign in Hungary, where he was engaged in defending the garrison located on Csepel Island in the Danube River.
[1][2] His son, Aḥmed Bey Dervishpašazade (died 1641), who adopted the pen name "Ṣabuḥi", was also a member of the Mevlevi order and composed poetry in Persian and Turkish.
[2] He brought a prized manuscript of Muslih al-Din Sururi's commentary on Rumi's Masnavi to the city, which, along with over forty other significant works in Persian, Arabic, and Turkish, formed part of an extensive waqf (endowment) he left behind.
Through this, Dervish Pasha institutionalized the teaching and interpretation of Persian literary classics in Mostar, embedding these works into the city's educational and cultural landscape.
[2] In addition to promoting literary education, Dervish Pasha contributed to the physical and cultural infrastructure of Mostar by founding a mosque (Dervishpashina džamija) in 1591–1592, along with a madrasa, maktab, and library.