Şirin Hatun

Şirin Hatun
شیریں خاتون
The mausoleum of Şirin Hatun located inside the Muradiye Complex, Bursa
Imperial consort of the Ottoman Empire
Tenure 22 May 1481 – 24 April 1512
Born before 1450
Died after 1500
Bursa, Ottoman Empire
Burial Muradiye Complex, Bursa
Spouse Bayezid II
Issue Şehzade Abdullah
Aynışah Hatun
Full name
Turkish: Şirin Hatun
English: Shirin Khatun
Ottoman Turkish: شیریں خاتون‎
Religion Sunni Islam

Şirin Hatun (Ottoman Turkish: شیریں خاتون‎; before 1450 – after 1500) was a consort of Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire.

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][2][3] 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 and later to a daughter Aynışah Hatun.[4] [5]

In 1481, Abdullah was sent to Manisa (then known as Saruhan) and in the same year to Karaman, and Şirin accompanied him.[6][6]

After the death of Şehzade Abdullah at his provincial post, Şirin came to Bursa in 1483.[6] In retirement she occupied herself with pious works.[6] 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.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Turkey: The Imperial House of Osman". web.archive.org. Archived from the original on May 2, 2006. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
  2. ↑ "Consorts Of Ottoman Sultans (in Turkish)". Ottoman Web Page.
  3. ↑ Anthony Dolphin Alerson (1956). The Structure of the Ottoman Dynasty. Clarendon Press.
  4. ↑ Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. p. 303.
  5. ↑ Uluçay, Mustafa Çağatay (1985). Padışahların kadınları ve kızları. Türk Tarihi Kurumu Yayınları.
  6. 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.
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