His father, Nuh, was a Venetian convert to Islam who worked in Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) as a doctor, and his mother Safiye was a Turk.

For this task he employed a French convert named Claude Alexandre de Bonneval (later known as Humbaracı Ahmed Pasha).

In Bosnia, he defeated the Austrians[1] at the Battle of Banja Luka during the Austro-Russian–Turkish War (1735–39) and supported the Grand Vizier Ivaz Mehmed Pasha in the siege of Belgrade (1739).

[3] During his second term (21 April 1742 – 23 September 1743), the most important problem was the new war against Persia, still led by Nadir Shah of the Afsharid dynasty.

[4] After his second term, he was appointed as provincial governor to Lesbos, Crete, Bosnia, Trikala (in Greece), Ochakiv (in Ukraine), Vidin (in Bulgaria), and Trabzon (in Anatolia) in rapid succession.

He is buried in a small monumental tomb near the Hekimoğlu Ali Paşa Mosque at the religious buildings complex that he endowed to be built in the Davutpaşa neighborhood of Istanbul.