Aali Pasha, ah'le pa shah', (1815-1871), a distinguished Turkish statesman. At the age of fifteen he became a clerk in the foreign office and rose steadily from one diplomatic post to another, at home, Vienna and else-where, till in 1844 he became ambassador at London. This varied experience left on his mind a profound impression of the absolute necessity for extensive reforms in the government of the Ottoman Empire; and these reforms he attempted, without success, to introduce. At the Congress of Paris he represented the porte, and maintained its cause with zeal and skill. He was grand vizier more than once and was made field marshal and pasha. He was active in repressing Egyptian efforts to shake off the supremacy of the porte.