Mustapha Saheb Ettabaa

Mustapha Saheb Ettabaa (Arabic: مصطفى صاحب الطابع; born 1784 and died 10 May 1861), was a Tunisian politician and a mamluk of Georgian origin who served as a minister in the Beylik of Tunis.

On the sudden death of Hammouda Pasha, Mustapha was freed according to the customs of the Beylical court but, after leaving the Bardo, the influential minister Youssef Saheb Ettabaa attached him to the service of the new ruler Osman Bey, who was quickly assassinated.

He leads with the French general Bertrand Clauzel delicate negotiations on the claims of Tunisian princes of the beyliks of Constantine and Oran.

There he greeted Napoleon III and gave him a copy of the codes and of the newly adopted constitution, agreed by the Grand Council of which he was a member.

His funeral took place in accordance with the customs of the Beylical family and he was buried in Tourbet el Bey.