In 1163, the vizier to the Fatimid caliph al-Adid, Shawar, had been driven out of Egypt by rival Dirgham, a member of the powerful Banu Ruzzaik tribe.

They successfully drove out Dirgham, the vizier of Egypt, and reinstated his predecessor Shawar.

Dirgham was killed during Shirkuh's invasion and Shawar was restored as vizier.

At that moment, the nominal ruler of al-Andalus, emir Yusuf ibn ' Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri ( another member of the Fihrid family, and a favorite of the old Arab settlers ( baladiyun ), mostly of south Arabian or ' Yemenite ' tribal stock ) was locked in a contest with his vizier ( and son-in-law ) al-Sumayl ibn Hatim al-Qilabi, the head of the new settlers ( shamiyum, the Syrian junds or military regiments, mostly of north Arabian Qaysid tribes, which had arrived only in 742 ).

Surrounded by the vizier Said ibn al-Mundhir who had ordered the construction of bastions around the city, he resisted the siege for six months, until he surrendered, having his life spared ( 928 ).

The Fatimids, under the nominal rule of caliph al-Musta ' li but actually controlled by vizier al-Afdal Shahanshah, had lost Jerusalem to the Seljuqs in 1073 ; they recaptured it in 1098 from the Artuqids, a smaller Turkish tribe associated with the Seljuqs, just before the arrival of the crusaders.

A combination of these stories is given by the French traveler Pouqueville, who writes that when the cord was thrown over his neck, Osman ' had the presence of mind to slip it with his hand, and knock down the principal executioner ; on which his grand vizier seized him by the most sensible part of his body, when Osman fainted with pain, and was strangled.

After the decay of the Fatimid political system in the 1160s, the Zengid ruler Nūr ad-Dīn had his general, Shirkuh, seize Egypt from the vizier Shawar in 1169.

Tissaphernes, who once again had recourse to subtle diplomacy, was beaten by Agesilaus II on the Pactolus near Sardis in 395 BC ; and at last the king yielded to the representations of Pharnabazus, strongly supported by the chiliarch ( vizier ) Tithraustes and by the queen-mother Parysatis, who hated Tissaphernes as the principal cause of the death of her favourite son Cyrus.

The Fatimids, under the nominal rule of caliph al-Musta ' li but actually controlled by vizier al-Afdal Shahanshah, had lost Jerusalem to the Seljuqs in 1073 ( although some older accounts say 1076 ); they recaptured it in 1098 from the Artuqids, a smaller Turkish tribe associated with the Seljuqs, just before the arrival of the crusaders.

However, the grand vizier, Ahmed Köprülü, ordered Sabbatai's immediate arrest upon arrival and had him imprisoned, maybe to avoid any doubts among local and foreign observers of the imperial court as to the mettle of state power still wielded by the Turkish Sultanate and by the Sultan himself.

Saladin had been appointed vizier of Egypt in 1169 and soon came to rule the country as sultan.

By 1090 AD, the Seljuq vizier Nizam al-Mulk had already given orders for Hasan ’ s arrest and therefore Hasan was living in hiding in the northern town of Qazvin, approximately 60 km from the Alamut castle.

The vizier took the initiative in resuming reforms that had been terminated by the conservative coup of 1807 that had brought Mustafa IV to power.

* In pre-and colonial ( notably British ) India many rulers, even some Hindu princes, had a vizier as chief minister – compare Diwan, Nawab wasir, Pradhan, etc.

Iran itself was riven by fighting between the various factions of the Qizilbash, who had mocked royal authority by killing the queen in 1579 and the grand vizier in 1583.

After a debate Al-Ma ' mun had set up with the greatest scholars of the world's religions to humiliate the Imam, the victorious Imam informed Al-Ma ' mun that his grand vizier, Fazl ibn Sahl, had not been informing him of everything.

In 1032CE Mahmud's very own vizier, Hasanak was executed for having accepted a cloak from the Imam-caliph on suspicions that he had become an adherent of the Ismaili faith.

Muhammad Ali was fully conscious that the empire which he had so laboriously built up might at any time have to be defended by force of arms against his master Sultan Mahmud II, whose whole policy had been directed to curbing the power of his too ambitious vassals, and who was under the influence of the personal enemies of the pasha of Egypt, notably of Husrev Pasha, the grand vizier, who had never forgiven his humiliation in Egypt in 1803.

Muhammad Ali, who had been granted the honorary rank of grand vizier in 1842, paid a visit to Istanbul in 1846, where he became reconciled to his old enemy Khosrev Pasha, whom he had not seen since he spared his life at Cairo in 1803.

The grand vizier Karamanlı Mehmet Pasha – believing himself to be fulfilling the wishes of the recently deceased Sultan – attempted to arrange a situation whereby the younger son Cem, whose governing seat at Konya was closer than his brother Bayezid's seat at Amasya, would arrive in Constantinople prior to his older sibling and be able to claim the throne.

The Egyptian vizier Shawar again requested help from Nur ad-Din, who sent his general Shirkuh, but Shawar quickly turned against him and allied with Amalric.

After Shawar was successfully reinstated as vizier, he demanded that Shirkuh withdraw his army from Egypt for a sum of 30, 000 dinars, but he refused insisting it was Nur ad-Din's will that he remain.

Nur ad-Din chose a successor for Shirkuh, but al-Adid appointed Saladin to replace Shawar as vizier.

* December 22 – Afraid that the Egyptian capital Fustat ( in today's Old Cairo ) will be captured by the Crusaders, its Fatimid vizier, Shawar, orders the city set afire.

Shawar died in 1169 and Shirkuh became vizier, but he too died later that year.

By 1163, the caliph was the young al-Adid, but the country was ruled by the vizier Shawar.

Shawar was executed and Shirkuh was named vizier of the newly conquered territory, later succeeded by his nephew Saladin.

The true power in Egypt was that of the vizier, Shawar.

* The Persian general and vizier, the eunuch Bagoas, falls out of favour with King Artaxerxes III.

Either you send us an explanation of this game of chess or send revenue and tribute us .” Khosrau's grand vizier successfully solved the riddle and figured out how to play chess.

Carried out by a man dressed as a Sufi whose identity remains unclear, the vizier ’ s murder in a Seljuq court is distinctive of exactly the type of visibility for which missions of the fida ’ is have been significantly exaggerated.

On the other hand, under Moroccan standards, a grand vizier can lead a government by simply serving as an advisor from his own residency, even if the body is wearing out.

The vizier may be used to play out of turn.

" During the climatic battle between Aladdin and the vizier, Olive screams out " Help!

The supervisor then tells about how the caliph dresses as a common man to find out what people think of him, and the evil vizier takes his place, which is the plot of one Iznogoud adventure.

With the bulk of the troops he set out towards Kosovo to meet the grand vizier, who had been sent with a large army to quell the rebellion.

He entered the city on October 14 in the manner of a true vizier, riding a horse decked out in silver and gold and accompanied by a large procession.

Forced against his will into war with Russia, Ahmed III came nearer than any Ottoman sovereign before or since to breaking the power of his northern rival, whose armies his grand vizier Nevşehirli Damat İbrahim Pasha succeeded in completely surrounding at the Pruth River Campaign in 1711.

Ottoman authority in Anatolia was indeed seriously threatened during this period, and at one point Bayezid II's grand vizier, Ali Pasha, was killed in battle against rebels.

But then, with the universe still threatened, Tiamat, with the imprisonment of her husand and consort Abzu and at the prompting of her son and vizier Kingu, decides to take back the creation herself.

The Zengids of Mosul appealed to an-Nasir, the Abbasid caliph at Baghdad whose vizier favored them.

This was an unofficial position known at the time as the mesazon, and equivalent to a vizier or ' prime-minister.

Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha ( Born 1634 / 1635 – died 25 December 1683 ) was an Ottoman military leader and grand vizier who was a central character in the empire's last attempts at expansion into both Central Europe and Eastern Europe.

Born to Turkish parents in Merzifon, he was adopted into the powerful Köprülü family at a young age and served as a messenger to Damascus for his brother-in-law, the grand vizier Ahmed Köprülü.

He took Acre after a severe siege on May 27, 1832, occupied Damascus, defeated an Ottoman army at Homs on July 8 defeated another Ottoman army at Beilan on July 29, invaded Asia Minor, and finally routed the grand vizier Reşid Mehmet Pasha at Konya on December 21.

Painting of Akbar the Great with Society of Jesus | Jesuits at his court ; Akbar's vizier wrote a gazetteer on the Mughal Empire | Mughal realm.

* Seshseshet, also called Sathor, married to Isi, resident governor at Edfu and also totled vizier.

His vizier, Mereruka, built a mastaba tomb at Saqqara which consisted of 33 richly carved rooms, the biggest known tomb for an Egyptian nobleman.

The southern vizier was based at Thebes.

The king reorganized the country and placed a vizier at the head of civil administration for the country.

* Abu al-Fadl ibn Hasda, philosopher, vizier at Zaragosa

He served as vizier and physician under the Ilkhanate emperors Mahmud Ghazan, Oljeitu, before he fell to court intrigues under Abu Sa ' id, whose ministers had him killed at the age of seventy.

Some historians believe that this is the actual place where the remains of the Serbian Saint Sava were burned at the stake in 1595 by the Ottoman grand vizier Sinan Pasha ( area known as Little Vračar ) and not the Vračar hill itself or Crveni Krst, another alternative site.