Moreover, the Pasha was never content to sit in the Citadel managing affairs from afar. Never completely satisfied with the reports that he was receiving regularly, he constantly went on inspection tours to investigate things for himself. His visits were rarely announced in advance, giving rise to a feeling among his officials that the Pasha was omnipresent and all-knowing. Just like the stories woven around his physical person which we read in the Introduction, those unannounced visits helped to usher in his presence and to mark the areas he visited “like some wolf or tiger spreading his scent through his territory.”

XREF: Builds on loc 59's note about Pasha reception rituals staging power through spectacle—here the unannounced visits are a complementary technique of surveilling and projecting omnipresence. Builds on: "Pasha reception rituals staged power through deliberate shadow and spectacle."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 683