List of the mothers of the Safavid Shahs

This list includes the biological mothers of Safavid Shahs. There were eleven shahs (kings) of the Safavid Empire in ten generations. Throughout 235-years history the shahs were all members of the same house, the house of Safavid.

Name (Birth Name) Son Ethnicity Place of Origin
Alam-Shah Begum (Halima, Mart[h]a) Ismail I half Greek - half Turcoman[1] Ardabil, Ag Qoyunlu
Tajlu Khanum (Shah-Begi Khanum) Tahmasp I Turcoman[2] ?
Sultanum Begum Ismail II and Mohammad Khodabanda Turcoman Qazvin, Safavid Empire
Khayr al-Nisa Begum Abbas I Mazanderani Qazvin, Safavid Empire
Dilaram Khanum Shah Safi Georgian[3] Kingdom of Kartli, Safavid Empire
Anna Khanum Abbas II Circassian[4] Circassia, or Safavid Empire
Nakihat Khanum Suleiman I of Persia Circassian[5] ?
Unknown Sultan Husayn Unknown Unknown
Unknown Tahmasp II Unknown Unknown
Unknown Abbas III Unknown Unknown
Shahrbanu Begum[6] Suleiman II Unknown ?
Khan Aqa Begum or Maryam Begum[6] Ismail III Unknown ?

See also

References

  1. ↑ Peter Charanis. "Review of Emile Janssens' Trébizonde en Colchide", Speculum, Vol. 45, No. 3,, (Jul., 1970), p. 476
  2. ↑ Women in Iran: From the Rise of Islam to 1800 ed. Nashat and Beck (University of Illinois Press, 2003) p.145
  3. ↑ Sussan Babaie and others: Slaves of the Shah (I.B. Tauris, 2003) p.104
  4. ↑ Andrew J. Newman Safavid Iran (I.B.Tauris) p.81
  5. ↑ Newman 2008, pp. 55, 93, 100.
  6. 1 2 Kissling, H. J.; Spuler, Bertold; Barbour, N.; Trimingham, J. S.; Braun, H.; Hartel, H. (August 1, 1997). The Last Great Muslim Empires. BRILL. p. 210. ISBN 978-9-004-02104-4.

Sources

  • Newman, Andrew J. (2008). Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-0857716613.
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