Mustafa, Pasha of Rhodes

Mustafa (c. 1708 – c. 1751/1763) was an Ottoman official who was Pasha of Rhodes in the 1740s. In January 1748, he was captured during a slave revolt on board his galley Lupa, and he was subsequently enslaved in Hospitaller Malta until May 1749. While on the island, Mustafa orchestrated a plot in which Muslim slaves were to rise up, assassinate Grand Master Manuel Pinto da Fonseca and take over the island with the assistance of the Ottoman Empire and the Barbary states.

The plot was never put into action as it was discovered prematurely in June 1749, and many plotters were tried, tortured and executed in the following months. Despite being implicated, Mustafa was never put on trial or punished due to French diplomatic intervention. He remained a captive in Malta until March 1751, when he departed the island for Constantinople. Mustafa's later life is unclear, with sources making several contradictory claims regarding his subsequent fate.

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