| In 803 Harun al-Rashid murdered his vizier, Ja'far the Barmecide, and ordered the destruction of this powerful vizierial family. |
| He came to Egypt in 1168 as an assistant to his uncle, who was a general and then became the vizier of the last Fatimid caliph. |
| Succeeding Fazıl Ahmed Paşa as grand vizier, he led unsuccessful campaigns against Poland and then Russia. |
| The great calligrapher, Muhammad ibn Muqla, a vizier at the court of three Abbasid caliphs, was charged with the task of standardising and refining the myriad cursive scripts. |
| She also points out that the absence of maxims regarding the vizierate, the highest office in the land, make it unlikely that the author was a vizier. |
| Once upon a time, the emperor from Shawinigan appointed a brand new grand vizier of public works. |
