ABSTRACT
KUC;UK MUI;IAMMAD was a man of obscure origin who, in 1087/1676, seized control of the Janissary headquarters in Cairo. Twice ousted from this position, he regained power there finally in 1103/1692, after collusion with Ibrahim Bey b. Dhi'l-Faqar, a prominent grandee of the Faqariyya faction, and Ijasan Aga Balfiyya, the influential commanding officer of the Goniilliiyan corps. During the following years he showed some of the characteristics of a tribune of the people, until his assassination in 1106/1694. His career is interesting in itself, and throws some light on the complexities of the struggle for power in Ottoman Egypt at the end of the seventeenth century.
