Rakım Mehmed Pasha

Rakım Mehmed Pasha (transliterated from Arabic as Muhammad Raqim Pasha) (died 1769 or 1770) was an Ottoman official who served as imperial defterdar (chief treasurer), the governor of Egypt and the governor of Jedda.

Rakım Mehmed's father, Boz Oglan Ibrahim Effendi (d. c. 1746), was an imperial defterdar.

He erected a fountain in honor of his father in the Çoban Mustafa Pasha Mosque in Gebze near the imperial capital Constantinople in 1768.

When Ali Bey marched on the provincial capital Cairo, Rakim Mehmed Pasha prevented the intervention of government forces, such as the janissaries, from confronting Ali Bey, thereby enabling him to defeat the ruling mamluks without any actual fighting.

[2] Rakim Mehmed Pasha was appointed governor of Jeddah Eyalet sometime in 1768.