Statesman, writer and poet (b. 1839,
İstanbul - d. 1925). He was the son of Mahmut Fehmi Paşa. After finishing high
school, he progressed in his career as a civil servant which he had started at
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Correspondence Department, and worked as a
clerk in several ministries, as under secretary to the Grand Vizier and was a member
of the State Council. After working in Konya, Ankara and Sivas as a governor,
he was appointed to the position of vizier and in 1893 and was appointed to the
Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1895. With the announcement of the Second Constitutional Monarchy he was removed
from his post and exiled to the Island of Chios and returned to İstanbul after an official pardon. Mahmut Paşa,
who is also admired for his poems written under the pen name Faik, is
essentially famous for his memoirs narrating the era of Abdülhamit.
WORKS:
Eser-i Memduh (Memduh’s Work, 1872), Feveran-ı Ezman (The Rage of Ezman, 1908), Şerair-i Siyasiye ve
Tahavvülat-i Esasiye (Sparks of Politics and Changes in the Truths,
1908), Yemen Islahatı ve Bazı Mutalaât
(The Yemen Reform and Information, 1909), Esvat-ı
Sudur (Voices of the Viziers, İzmir, 1912), Mir'at-ı Şuûnat (Mirror of the Events, 1912), Tasvir-i Ahval Tenvir-i İstikbal (The Description of Circumstances
and the Illumination of the Future, 1912), Hal'ler
İclaslar (Circumstances and Enthroning, 1913), Kuvvet-i İkbal Alamet-i Zeyal (The Power of Prosperity and the
Symbol of Zeyal 1913), Miftah-ı Yemen (The
Key of Yemen, 1914), Bedayi-i Asâr (Beautiful
Sayings of Literature, 1914), Divan-ı
Eş'ar (Divan* of the Best Poets, 1916), Berk-i
Sebz (Blue Lightning, encomiums and lyric poems), Tercüme-i Hikâye-i Jöneviev (The Translation of the Story of
Genevive, from Lamartine, 1868).
