 An early governor of Gaza Sanjak was Kara Shahin Mustafa , a former <unk> ( member of a military corps ) who rose to become an elite military officer and state minister and eventually a vizier and trusted aide of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent . He received the governorship of Gaza apparently as an interim appointment before he was appointed Governor of Egypt , although he was deposed three years later by Sultan Selim II . Mustafa died a short while later and his son Ridwan Pasha , who was the treasurer of Yemen , became governor shortly before Mustafa 's death . The Ridwan dynasty , which would rule Gaza for over a century , derives its name from Ridwan Pasha . He was later appointed Governor of Yemen , but was deposed two years later and returned to the governorship of Gaza . After becoming governor of Ethiopia , Basra , and Diyarbakir in that order , he successfully led an Ottoman contingent against Safavid Persia in 1579 . The sultan then awarded him the province of Anatolia where he died in 1585 . 
