Şirin Hatun
| Şirin Hatun شیریں خاتون | |
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| Born |
before 1450 Circassia |
| Died |
after 1500 Bursa, Ottoman Empire |
| Resting place | Muradiye Complex, Bursa |
| Residence | Amasya, Karaman, Manisa, Bursa |
| Ethnicity | Circassian |
| Religion | Islam |
| Spouse(s) | Bayezid II |
| Children |
Şehzade Abdullah Aynışah Sultan |
Şirin Hatun (before 1450 - after 1500,[1]) (Şirin meaning "Cute, Sweet, Pleasant, Gentle, delicate") was the second wife of Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II and the mother of Şehzade Abdullah and Aynışah Sultan.[2]
Biography
Little is known of Şirin’s early life. The Ottoman inscription (vakfiye) describes her as Hātun binti Abdullah (Daughter of Abdullah) which means that she was a harem concubine converted to Islam or her father was possibly a Christian who converted to Islam.[1][3][4] Bayezid married her in 1464 at Amasya.[1] When Bayezid was still a şehzade ("Ottoman prince") and the governor of Amasya, she gave birth to Bayezid's first son, Şehzade Abdullah in 1465, which followed by the birth of Aynışah Sultan in 1490.[1]
In 1481 Abdullah was sent to Manisa (then known as Saruhan) and in the same year to Karaman, and Şirin accompanied him.[5][5]
After the death of Şehzade Abdullah at his provincial post, Şirin came to Bursa in 1483.[5] In retirement she occupied herself with pious works.[5] She built a "Hatuniye Mosque" located inside Trabzon Castle and endowed a religious college in Trabzon, and then she also built a tomb for Abdullah, in which she was too buried at her death.[5]
See also
Further reading
- Peirce, Leslie P., The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire, Oxford University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-19-508677-5 (paperback).
- Yavuz Bahadıroğlu, Resimli Osmanlı Tarihi, Nesil Yayınları (Ottoman History with Illustrations, Nesil Publications), 15th Ed., 2009, ISBN 978-975-269-299-2 (Hardcover).
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Turkey: The Imperial House of Osman". web.archive.org. Archived from the original on May 2, 2006. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
- ↑ Ahmed Akgündüz, Said Öztürk (2011). Ottoman History: Misperceptions and Truths. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-9-090-26108-9.
- ↑ "Consorts Of Ottoman Sultans (in Turkish)". Ottoman Web Page.
- ↑ Anthony Dolphin Alerson (1956). The Structure of the Ottoman Dynasty. Clarendon Press.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Leslie P. Peirce (1993). The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford University Press. pp. 106–107. ISBN 978-0-195-08677-5.