Gülfem Hatun

Gülfem Hatun
کلفام خاتون
Seyyidetü'l-muhadderat
Tacü'l-mesturat[1]
Sahibetü'l-hayrat
Sa'ide Şehide[2]
Died c. 1561–62
Eski Palace, Beyazıt Square, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Burial Gülfem Hatun Mosque, Istanbul
Full name
Turkish: Gülfem Hatun
English: Gulfam Khatun
Ottoman Turkish: کلفام خاتون‎
Religion Sunni Islam

Gülfem Hatun (Ottoman Turkish: کلفام خاتون‎; died c. 1561–62) was a lady-in-waiting to Suleiman the Magnificent (reign 1520–1566).

Life

Throughout Suleiman the Magnificent's reign (reign 1520–1566), she enjoyed a considerable status within the imperial harem, thus she is supposed by some authors to have been a concubine of Suleiman's or the stewardess of his harem[3] and received 150 aspers a day.[4]

In 1522 she commissioned a fountain in Yenişehir, and in 1524 another fountain in Manisa.[1] In September 1542, she commissioned a soup kitchen in Üsküdar.[5] In March 1543 she established the financial ground work to built a "timber frame mosque"[6][7] now known as the "Gülfem Hatun Mosque",[8] located near the soup kitchen. According to a local tradition, the mosque was intended for the use of women and opened to men only in recent times.[9][10] A school is also present near the mosque.[11]

She died in 1561–62, and was buried in her own mosque.[12]

  • In the 2003 Turkish TV miniseries, Hürrem Sultan, Gülfem Hatun was played by Turkish actress Yasemin Kozanoğlu.
  • In the 2011–2014 Turkish historical fiction TV series Muhteşem Yüzyıl, Gülfem was portrayed by Turkish actress Selen Özturk.

References

Sources

  • Peirce, Leslie P. (1993). The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-195-08677-5.
  • Uluçay, Mustafa Çağatay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ankara, Ötüken.
  • Ruggles, D. Fairchild (August 3, 2000). Women, Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-791-44470-2.
  • Ostovich, Helen; Silcox, Mary V.; Roebuck, Graham (2008). The Mysterious and the Foreign in Early Modern England. Associated University Presse. ISBN 978-0-874-13954-9.
  • Princeton Papers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. Markus Wiener Publishers. 1997.
  • Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-9-753-29623-6.
  • Haskan, Mehmed Nermi (2001). Yüzyıllar Boyunca Üsküdar, Volume 2. Üsküdar Belediyesi. ISBN 978-9-759-76063-2.
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