MUSTAFA I

born 1591, Manisa, Ottoman Empire [now in Turkey] died Jan. 20, 1639, Constantinople [now Istanbul] Ottoman sultan in 161718 and in 162223, a man of weak mental faculties who was deposed from the throne in 1618 but was reinstalled in 1622 by the Janissaries (elite troops), who dethroned Osman II. Mustafa's reign, under the influence of his mother, witnessed continuous interference of the Janissaries in the administration and a revolt in Anatolia of Abaza Mehmed Pasa, who sought to avenge Osman II's death.