Emin Pasha Quotes


You may kill me, but don’t think that I am the only white man in the country. There are many others who will be willing to avenge my death, and let me tell you that in less than two years from now there won’t be an Arab left in the entire country now held by your people.


Context

He was a German physician and explorer who had converted to Islam. Nonetheless, he was caught up in the Arab uprising of the Madhists, who had conquered much African territory.


Citations

Mehmed Emin Pasha, 1840-1892, [Eduard Schnitzer], British Governor of Equatorial Africa, Ottoman Governor of Albania, Statement to the Arab slave traders who were about to assassinate him, 1892, Quoted in R. Jones, Emin Pasha

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  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Physician, Naturalist

Mehmed Emin Pasha (born Isaak Eduard Schnitzer, baptized Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer; March 28, 1840 – October 23, 1892) was an Ottoman physician of German Jewish origin, naturalist, and governor of the Egyptian province of Equatoria on the upper Nile. The Ottoman Empire conferred the title "Pasha" on him in 1886, and thereafter he was referred to as "Emin Pasha".