List of mothers of the Safavid shahs
Appearance
This list includes the biological mothers of Safavid shahs. There were eleven shahs (kings) of the Safavid Empire in ten generations. Throughout 235-years history the shahs were all members of the same house, the house of Safavid.
Name (Birth Name) | Son | Ethnicity | ||||||||||
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Safavid Iran | ||||||||||||
Alam-Shah Begum (Halima, Mart[h]a) | Ismail I | half Pontic Greek - half Turcoman[1] | ||||||||||
Tajlu Khanum (Shah-Begi Khanum) | Tahmasp I | Turcoman[2] | ||||||||||
Sultanum Begum | Ismail II and Mohammad Khodabanda | Turcoman | ||||||||||
Khayr al-Nisa Begum | Abbas I | Mazanderani | ||||||||||
Dilaram Khanum | Shah Safi | Georgian[3] | ||||||||||
Anna Khanum | Abbas II | Circassian[4] | ||||||||||
Nakihat Khanum | Suleiman I of Persia | Circassian[5] | ||||||||||
Unknown | Sultan Husayn | Circassian[6] | ||||||||||
After the Siege of Isfahan | ||||||||||||
Unknown | Tahmasp II | Unknown | ||||||||||
Unknown | Abbas III | Unknown | ||||||||||
After Nader Shah | ||||||||||||
Shahrbanu Begum[7] | Suleiman II | Unknown | ||||||||||
Khan Aqa Begum or Maryam Begum[7] | Ismail III | Unknown |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Peter Charanis. "Review of Emile Janssens' Trébizonde en Colchide", Speculum, Vol. 45, No. 3,, (Jul., 1970), p. 476
- ^ Women in Iran: From the Rise of Islam to 1800 ed. Nashat and Beck (University of Illinois Press, 2003) p.145
- ^ Sussan Babaie and others: Slaves of the Shah (I.B. Tauris, 2003) p.104
- ^ Andrew J. Newman Safavid Iran (I.B.Tauris) p.81
- ^ Newman 2008, pp. 55, 93, 100.
- ^ Matthee 2012.
- ^ a b Kissling, H. J.; Spuler, Bertold; Barbour, N.; Trimingham, J. S.; Braun, H.; Hartel, H. (August 1, 1997). The Last Great Muslim Empires. BRILL. p. 210. ISBN 978-9-004-02104-4.
Sources
[edit]- Matthee, R. (2012). "Sulṭān Ḥusayn". In P. Bearman; Th. Bianquis; C.E. Bosworth; E. van Donzel; W.P. Heinrichs (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill Online. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_7180.
- Newman, Andrew J. (2008). Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-0857716613.