Muchir Arif Pacha

Muchir Arif Pacha fought against the Greeks at Athens and at Euboea (1826-1828) and in Syria against Mehmet Ali. He carried out missions for the sultan who appointed him governor of Silistria in 1861. He produced a splendid book entitled Les Anciens costumes de l’Empire Ottoman, depuis l’origine de la monarchie jusqu’à la reforme du sultan Mahmoud (1863; The old costumes of the Ottoman Empire, from the beginning of the monarchy to the reform under sultan Mahmoud). It portrays 80 forms of costumes worn at the court of the Ottoman Empire. There were two editions: in French and in Turkish.He was a statesman and painter.