Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Mushir (Marshal) Mehmed Emin Nam k Pasha (Istanbul, 1804 Istanbul, 1892) was a major Ottoman statesman of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. He served under five sultans and acted as counsellor to at least four of them. He founded the Mekteb-i Harbiye (The Ottoman Military Academy), was twice viceroy of the province of Bagdad, was the first ambassador of the Sublime Porte at Saint-James's Court, was appointed Serasker (Commander-in-chief / Minister of War), became a Cabinet minister, and was conferred the title of eyh-ül Vüzera (Head of Imperial Ministers). During a long career that spanned a long lifetime (he lived to be eighty-eight), he was one of the personalities who shaped, as well as were themselves shaped by what historian lber Ortayl called the longest century of the Ottoman state (see his mparatorlu un En Uzun Yüzy l , 1983).