Şah Sultan (daughter of Selim I)

Şah Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: شاه سلطان‎ c. 1507 – c. 1572) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Selim I and Ayşe Hafsa Sultan and sister of Suleiman the Magnificent. She was also an prominent figure of her brothers reign.

Şah Sultan
The tomb of Şah Sultan is located inside the Yavuz Sultan Selim Mosque in Istanbul.
BornŞahıhuban or Şah-ı Huban
c. 1507
Manisa, Ottoman Empire
Diedc. 1572 (aged 64–65)
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(present day Istanbul, Turkey)
Burial
Yavuz Selim Mosque, Istanbul
SpouseLütfi Pasha (m. 1523; div. 1541)
Merkez Efendi (m. 1542?; d. 1552)
IssueEsmihan Sultan[1]
DynastyOttoman
FatherSelim I
MotherAyşe Hafsa Sultan (possible) or Ayşe Hatun
ReligionSunni Islam

Biography

She was raised in Manisa and married in 1523 to the future Grand Vizier and sufic Lütfi Pasha.

Her spouse became Grand Vizier in 1539, she wielded a great power in Istanbul. The couple had a daughter named Esmihan Sultan.

In 1541, she divorced her spouse, who was also deposed from his position. The divorce took place on her initiative, allegedly because of her husband's punishment of a woman for adultery. Lütfi Pasha ordered the cutting of an extremity of an adultress and this led to a dispute between the Pasha and Şah Sultan. As the argument got heated, Lütfi Pasha gave Şah Sultan a beating. Following the incident, Şah Sultan got the Pasha beaten by her servants and complained to her brother, Sultan Suleiman, and requested a divorce. This led to the deposition of Lütfi Pasha from his position as the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.

She had the Şah Sultan Mosque built in 1556. Later, she built a school in Silivrikapı. She also dedicated her lands which were assigned to her by her brother Suleiman the Magnificent. She died in 1572 and was buried in her own mosque. [2]

In the TV series Muhteşem Yüzyıl, Şah Sultan is played by Turkish actress Deniz Çakır.

See also

References
  1. Necdet Sakaoğlu, Bu Mülkün Kadın Sultanları, Oğlak Publishing, 4th edition, p. 154
  2. Uluçay 1992, p. 58.

Sources
  • Uluçay, M. Çağatay (1992). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ötüken.
  • Peirce, Leslie P., The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire, Oxford University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-19-508677-5 (paperback).


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