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
Alam-Shah Begum (Halima, Mart[h]a) Ismail I half Greek - half Turcoman[1]
Tajlu Khanum (Shah-Begi Khanum) Tahmasp I Turcoman[2]
Sultanum Begum Ismail II and Mohammad Khodabanda Turcoman
Khayr al-Nisa Begum Abbas I Mazanderani
Dilaram Khanum Shah Safi Georgian[3]
Anna Khanum Abbas II Circassian[4]
Nakihat Khanum Suleiman I of Persia Circassian[5]
Unknown Sultan Husayn Circassian[6]
Unknown Tahmasp II Unknown
Unknown Abbas III Unknown
Shahrbanu Begum[7] Suleiman II Unknown
Khan Aqa Begum or Maryam Begum[7] 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. Matthee 2012.
  7. 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
  • Matthee, R. (2012). "Sulṭān Ḥusayn". In P. Bearman; Th. Bianquis; C.E. Bosworth; E. van Donzel; W.P. Heinrichs (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill Online. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_7180.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Newman, Andrew J. (2008). Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-0857716613.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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