Serfiraz Hanım

Serfiraz Hanım
Imperial consort of the Ottoman Sultan
Tenure 1851 – 25 June 1861
Born Ayşe Liah
c. 1837
Abkhazia
Died 9 June 1905(1905-06-09) (aged 67–68)
Bebek Palace, Bebek, Beşiktaş, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Burial Şehzade Ahmed Kemaleddin Mausoleum, Yahya Efendi Cemetery, Istanbul
Spouse Abdulmejid I
Issue Şehzade Osman Osman Seyfeddin
Şehzade Suleiman Selim
Bedia Sultan
House Ottoman (by marriage)
Father Osman Liah
Mother Zeliha Tapsın
Religion Sunni Islam

Serfiraz Hanım (Ottoman Turkish: سرفراز خانم‎; c. 1837 – 9 June 1905) was the sixteenth wife of Sultan Abdulmejid I of the Ottoman Empire.

Early life

Serfiraz Hanım was born in 1837 in Abkhazia. Born as Ayşe Liah, she was a member of the Abkhazian princely family, Liah. Her father was Prince Osman Bey Liah and her mother was Zeliha Hanım Tapsın.[1] She had two sisters, Princess Hüsnümah Hanım and Princess Agâh Hanım.[2]

Ayşe had been brought to Istanbul, where her father entrusted her to the imperial harem, where her name according to the custom of the Ottoman court was changed to Serfiraz.[1]

Marriage

Serfiraz married Abdulmejid in 1851.[1] She was given the title of "Altıncı Ikbal". On 9 June 1852, a year after the marriage, she gave birth to her first child, a son, Şehzade Osman Seyfeddin in the Old Çırağan Palace. He died at the age of three.[3] She was then given the title of "Beşinci Ikbal", and in 1853, she was given the title of "Dördüncü Ikbal".[4] She was then given the title of Üçüncü Ikbal, and in 1855,[5] the title of "Ikinci Ikbal". In 1857, she gave birth to her second child, a daughter, Bedia Sultan, who died a month old.[6] Two years later, on 25 July 1860, she gave birth to her third child, a son, Şehzade Selim Süleyman.[7]

Serfiraz Hanım was Abdulmejid's favourite wife. He had alocated her to Yıldız Mansion.[8]

Later years

After Abdulmejid's death on 25 June 1861, Serfiraz and her a year old son, Şehzade Süleyman, settled in a mansion located in Ortaköy.[2][9]

In the year of 1885 the Sultan's sisters, daughters and wives are said to have incurred a debt of 288,000 purses, approximately 1.15 million pounds sterling, of which, Serfiraz alone was responsible for 125,000 purses, approximately 500,000 pounds sterling.[10]

In March 1898, Serfiraz attended the wedding of Naime Sultan, the daughter of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and Kemaleddin Pasha, the son of Ghazi Osman Pasha.[11]

Hamide Ayşe Sultan, daughter of Abdul hamid II, notes in her memoirs that during her father's reign, Serfiraz would attend Ramadan celebrations, and would always sit next to Perestu Kadın.[12]

Death

Serfiraz Hanım settled with her son in his Bebek Palace,[13] where she died on 9 June 1905. She was buried in the mausoleum of Şehzade Ahmed Kemaleddin in Yahya Efendi Cemetery, Istanbul.[14][7][15]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Açba 2007, p. 71.
  2. 1 2 Açba 2007, p. 72.
  3. ↑ Uluçay 2011, p. 214, n. 30.
  4. ↑ Uluçay 2011, p. 212 n. 24.
  5. ↑ Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 595.
  6. ↑ Uluçay 2011, p. 214, 231.
  7. 1 2 Uluçay 2011, p. 214.
  8. ↑ Uluçay 2011, p. 213.
  9. ↑ Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 598.
  10. ↑ Badem, Candan (2010). The” Ottoman Crimean War: (1853 - 1856). BRILL. p. 300. ISBN 978-9-004-18205-9.
  11. ↑ Brookes 2010, p. 160, 285.
  12. ↑ Brookes 2010, p. 185.
  13. ↑ Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 599.
  14. ↑ Açba 2007, p. 73.
  15. ↑ Brookes 2010, p. 290.

Sources

  • Uluçay, M. Çağatay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ötüken. ISBN 978-9-754-37840-5.
  • Açba, Harun (2007). Kadın efendiler: 1839-1924. Profil. ISBN 978-9-759-96109-1.
  • Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu Mülkün Kadın Sultanları: Vâlide Sultanlar, Hâtunlar, Hasekiler, Kandınefendiler, Sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-6-051-71079-2.
  • The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from the Ottoman Harem. University of Texas Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-292-78335-5.
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