Emine Sultan (daughter of Abdülaziz)

Emine Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: امینه سلطان‎; 24 August 1874 – 30 January 1920) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Ottoman Sultan Abdülaziz and Nesrin Kadın.

Emine Sultan
The tomb of Emine Sultan is located inside the Mahmud II Mausoleum at Divanyolu, in Istanbul, Turkey.
Born(1874-08-24)24 August 1874
Dolmabahçe Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(now Istanbul, Turkey)
Died30 January 1920(1920-01-30) (aged 45)
Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Burial
Mahmud II Mausoleum, Divanyolu, Istanbul
SpouseMehmed Şerif Pasha
IssueHamide Hanımsultan
DynastyOttoman
FatherAbdulaziz
MotherNesrin Kadın
ReligionSunni Islam

Early life

Emine Sultan was born on 24 August 1874 in at the Dolmabahçe Palace.[1][2] Her father was Sultan Abdulaziz, and her mother was Nesrin Kadın, the daughter of Prince Ismail Zevş-Barakay.[3] She was the youngest daughter of her father and the second child of her mother. She was the younger full sister of Şehzade Mehmed Şevket.[4][2]

Her father, Abdulaziz was deposed by his ministers on 30 May 1876, his nephew Murad V became the Sultan.[5] He was transferred to Feriye Palace the next day.[6] The women of Abdulaziz's entourage didn't wanted to leave the Dolmabahçe Palace. So they were grabbed by hand and were send out to the Feriye Palace. In the process, they were searched from head to toe and everything of value was taken from them.[7] On 4 June 1876,[8] Abdulaziz died under mysterious circumstances.[9]

Her mother died a few days later, on 11 June 1876,[4] when Emine Sultan was not yet two years old, her older brother the crown prince Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin raised her in his household.[10][1][2]

Marriage

In 1901, Sultan Abdul Hamid II arranged her trousseaux and marriage together with two of Sultan Murad V daughters, princesses Hatice Sultan and Fehime Sultan.[11] At the age of twenty seven, she married Mehmed Şerif Pasha on 3 September 1901 in the Yıldız Palace.[2][1][12]

The couple were given the palace of Mehmed Sadık Pasha located in Çarşıkapı.[1] The two together had a daughter named Hamide Hanımsultan.[12]

Death

Emine Sultan died on 30 January 1920[10] at age of forty five in Istanbul, and was buried in the mausoleum of Sultan Mahmud II, Divanyolu, Istanbul.[13][14]

See also

Ancestry

References
  1. Uluçay 2011, p. 236.
  2. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 644.
  3. Açba, Harun (2007). Kadın efendiler: 1839-1924. Profil. p. 90. ISBN 978-9-759-96109-1.
  4. Uluçay 2011, p. 233.
  5. Zürcher, Erik J. (October 15, 2004). Turkey: A Modern History, Revised Edition. I.B.Tauris. pp. 73. ISBN 978-1-850-43399-6.
  6. Shaw, Stanford J.; Shaw, Ezel Kural (1976). History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey: Volume 2, Reform, Revolution, and Republic: The Rise of Modern Turkey 1808-1975, Volume 11. Cambridge University Press. pp. 164. ISBN 978-0-521-29166-8.
  7. Brookes 2010, p. 40.
  8. Davison, Roderic H. (December 8, 2015). Reform in the Ottoman Empire, 1856-1876. Princeton University Press. p. 341. ISBN 978-1-400-87876-5.
  9. Brookes 2010, p. 43.
  10. Brookes 2010, p. 280.
  11. Brookes 2010, p. 159.
  12. Adra, Jamil (2005). Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005. pp. 16.
  13. Sakaoğlu 2008, p. 645.
  14. Uluçay 2011, p. 236-7.

Sources
  • Mustafa Çağatay Uluçay (2011). Padişahların kadınları ve kızları. Ankara, Ötüken.
  • Sakaoğlu, Necdet (2008). Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak Yayıncılık. ISBN 978-9-753-29623-6.
  • 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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