Şah Sultan (daughter of Selim I)

Şah Sultan
Born Şah-ı Huban
1507
Manisa, Ottoman Empire
Died 1572 (aged 64–65)
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Burial Yavuz Selim Mosque, Istanbul
Spouse Lütfi Pasha (m. 1523; div. 1541)
Issue Esmehan Sultan
Dynasty Ottoman
Father Selim I
Religion Islam

Şah Sultan (1507–1572) (Ottoman Turkish: شاه سلطان‎) was an Ottoman princess, daughter of Sultan Selim I, and sister of Suleiman the Magnificent.

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 two daughters named Esmehan Sultan and there Sons.

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.

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

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).

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