Sulayman Pasha al-Adil (died 1819; given name also spelled Suleiman or Sulaiman) was the Ottoman governor of Sidon Eyalet from his Acre headquarters between 1805 and 1819. He also simultaneously served as governor of Damascus Eyalet between 1810 and 1812. He was a mamluk of his predecessor, Jezzar Pasha. His rule was associated with decentralization, a reduction of Acre's military, and limits to his predecessors' cotton monopoly. Moreover, he oversaw a policy of non-interference with his deputy governors, such as Muhammad Abu-Nabbut and Mustafa Agha Barbar, and diplomacy with the autonomous sheikhs of the various Levantine regions where he held authority, including Emir Bashir Shihab II and Musa Bey Tuqan. He exercised control over his domain largely through depending on the loyalty of his his deputies, who also had been mamluks of Jezzar. In effect, Sulayman Pasha presided over the world's last functioning mamluk system.
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