Background
He was a member of the prominent al-Azm family, the son of a former governor As"ad Pasha al-Azm.
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Muhammad Eyalet
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Career
During Muhammad Pasha"s time in office, Damascus was experiencing a peak in its prosperity, although its political clout in the Levant was being overshadowed by the rulers of Acre, first Zahir al-Umar and then Jezzar Pasha. Muhammad Pasha administered the city well and commissioned numerous building projects. Muhammad Pasha"s death in 1783 largely marked the end of the al-Azm family"s political dominance in Ottoman Syria, although the family continued to be influential well after the end of Ottoman rule in 1917.
Muhammad Pasha"s son, Abdullah Pasha, was the last governor of Damascus from the al-Azm family.
