Power broker at the Ottoman Palace in Istanbul: Darüssaade ağası Hacı Mustafa Ağa
Power broker at the Ottoman Palace in Istanbul: Darüssaade ağası Hacı Mustafa Ağa
Abstract
In the summer of 2014, the renovated Kizlaraga’s mosque was opened in the town of Ljubinje in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the Bosnian historiography and collective memory of the people of Ljubinje and the wider area, it was remembered that the mosque was build by a certain Mustafa Ağa, originally from place called Žabica near Ljubinje. According to Evliya Çelebi, the benefactor and builder of that mosque was famous Hacı Mustafa, darüssaade ağa of Osman II (1618-1621) in the first decades of the 17th century. In the summer of 2014, the renovated Kizlaraga’s mosque was opened in the town of Ljubinje in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the Bosnian historiography and collective memory of the people of Ljubinje and the wider area, it was remembered that the mosque was build by a certain Mustafa Ağa, originally from place called Zabica near Ljubinje. According to Evliya Çelebi, the benefactor and builder of that mosque was famous Hacı Mustafa, darüssaade ağa of Osman II (1618-1621) in the first decades of the 17th century.