Nişancı Ahmed Paşa

Ahmed Pasha (died February 1753), also called Şehla Ahmed Pasha, Hacı Şehla Ahmed Pasha, or Kör Vezir Ahmed Pasha ("Ahmed Pasha the Blind Vizier"), was an Ottoman Grand Vizier during the reign of Mahmud I. He was also the Ottoman governor of Egypt from 1748 to 1751.

Early life He was sometimes called Kör Vezir ("blind vizier") because he was somewhat cross-eyed.

Later years After the Treaty of Kerden, he was appointed the governor of Baghdad Eyalet in Ottoman Iraq in 1747, the governor of Egypt Eyalet in 1748,

Interests Contemporaries in Ottoman Egypt described him as a man interested in the sciences and philosophy, but reported that he was disappointed when he discovered that Egypt's famed Al-Azhar University had ceased to teach about sciences and focused on only religious education. Reportedly, he found even the most educated Egyptians and ulema to be illiterate in basic mathematics, spending most of his time with the few he found that shared his interest in the sciences.